Wake up this morning to white stuff coming down (that's a four letter word in October) and to the Mailbu lights down the steps pulled out. Grrrrr. I guess it could be worse. They're supposed to get 4 to 10 inches in the mountains.
Nancy in sw PA
We had some in parts of Nova Scotia Thursday night. Guess who had the snow tires put on Tuesday afternoon lol
we got around 12-14 inches in my yard.
Glad to hear your power is returned. There was an item on our news last night re. the bad snow falls that crippled (think) the mid-west this time nine months ago and has now led to a surge in Blizzard Babies lol The hospital interviewed said there were double the normal births. Hope you were careful ??
Glad you've got power again. We've been fortunate here.
Nancy
16 to 18 inches in Manchester. Only lost power for 24 hours. Lost a coup;e more tress though and my Rose of Sharon took a beating. Really glad that we had started removing a lot of the trees from the yard in the last couple of years. I would have seen more damage if we hadn't.
lucky you on the short time without. We're doing a generator next spring
- never going with out for that long again. Your Rose of Sharon ought to recover fairly well over the next year or so!
C
Just found out that Sarah totaled her car on black ice. She's alright as it was a low impact collision, but she just paid it off this year.
We seldom lose electric for more than a couple of hours as we live on the same grid as CMC and several nursing facilities. It may be a busy street, but there are advantages.
Bobbie V
Glad Sarah is ok - too bad about the car though. Hope the insurance is enough to get her started with a "new" one.
On 11/5/11 8:16 AM, in article j939es$l2o$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, "bobbieviorritto" wrote:
Sorry to hear about the accident - glad she's ok, and hopefully the insurance/car replacement will work out decently. The not being hurt is the most important!
WRT the plants, we have some rhodies that suffered horribly in the big snow about 2 years ago - thought we'd have to yank them, as they were split, buried, etc. Last year's big snow almost killed a couple of beautiful Scotch brooms. And the snow then summer drought 2 winters ago about did in the Japanese maple - same year as the rhodies. I can say, that with some encouragement from Cheryl, and one of our nursery guys, almost all are now fine. One broom was just split all the way down, so it ended up being pulled - but the other, with judicious trimming, came back nicely - though we're going to move it next week because another winter where it is - in the place that snow ends up piled by a walkway - will be the end. It's too stiff. However, we were just noticing (as I did weeding before a final mulch) that the rhodies came back and now look really healthy. Their shape is a bit different, but they actually don't look all leggy and winter damaged - which surprised us. And the Japanese maple, after the careful trimming off of dead limbs, and then more dead limbs when it was looking like it may survive - now looks happy and lovely again. It took the full 2 years, but was worth waiting - as it's a nice, sculptural, bloodgood type that DH picked. It's even put up growth filling in up in the height. So, if Cheryl says your Rose of Sharon will come back - I bet she's right. It was hard to keep kind of hoping with the Japanese maple, but I'm glad we took some care of it and waited.
We just had about an inch here - though our deck stayed ice covered for a couple of days. It mostly sleeted, then some areas like us had actual snow that stayed down a little bit - but for the most part it melted away. All you NE folks have our sympathies - it's just too soon for big winter uck.
Ellice
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It always amazes us on our hikes that, while humans can spend hours and hours and dollars and dollars trying to keep rhodies happy in their yards, the ones out in the woods can be spectacular with only nature taking care of them. :-) Upon closer inspection, the wild ones are probably leggy and split and not really attractive when not in bloom but, man, oh man, oh man, when one is tired and sweaty and looking forward to the cars at the end of the trail (or the lunch at the half way point) :-), we tend not to notice the plants themselves but to just enjoy the show!!!!
You guys "Back East" have my sympathy, though! We just had our first few days of real rain (as opposed to a couple of days of off & on sprinkles) and the Siskiyou Pass the the peak I see from my kitchen window had some snow but we don't get it like YOU get it!!!!!!!!
Liz from Humbug (in southern Oregon)
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