About 0400 or so as I was about to turn out the light she came to bed and informed me that we might be about to lose the birch tree in the back yard.
"Nothing we can do about it now" we agreed.
Right.
Ten minutes later I was out in the back yard.
One of the limbs her father had secured with a line (plastic-sheathed clothed line, I think) was hanging down almost to the ground; the line had snapped.
The upper branches from the limb were over-hanging the corner of the roof, although I couldn't get a good look. Being me, I grabbed a large pair of side-cutting loppers from the back porch/lawn tool storage, and trimmed it up as best I could.
I think I need a real chain saw.
Did get the satellite dish cleared, though.
The tree in question. Pretty sure I ran pics of it in pretty much this condition a few years ago. Photo ©2017 D.W. Drang and The Cluemeter |
Same tree, from driveway, post-dish clearing. The white streaks are more snow falling, BTW. Photo ©2017 D.W. Drang and The Cluemeter |
The hood of Mrs. Drang's car. The snow is heavy enough that the front half of the hood was cleared, the snow there slid off of it's own weight. Photo ©2017 D.W. Drang and The Cluemeter |
The solar-powered garden light seems to have problems... Photo ©2017 D.W. Drang and The Cluemeter |
No bird baths today... Photo ©2017 D.W. Drang and The Cluemeter |
UPDATE: Just heard a loud cracking noise from outside. 😟 Can't tell if it's ours or a neighbors. Will wait for full daylight for further inspection, don't want to walk around under it if it's about to go...😨
UPDATE 2: Lost power just before 0700. Lost two limbs from the birch tree, they fell down in the street. Called in power outage, notified 911 of a downed line in the street. Checked out the limbs in the street, decided it was enough of a public nuisance I needed to clear it away...
...and my silly little electric chain saws had no power.
Dug around in the garage and found a fairly large saw that Mrs. Drang's father had, grabbed it and a pair of offset loppers and got the street cleared, if not the entire mess cleaned up.
Power just came back on, trying to decide if I'd rather have breakfast or a shower first...
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Better you than me. I don't DO cold that well anymore... sigh
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