Posted on 02/12/2006 9:31:24 AM PST by trooprally
Not sure about the pruning, they really don't get tall enough to realy damage a house. They do stop traffic when planted next to a road and they split.
Hi Surrey, I figured by now you would already be in some warm spot, watching the weather maps in a short sleeve shirt, and sipping down a pina colada.
Our weather station here in Scituate over by third cliff recorded a 58 mph gust at 11:20 AM. I can't tell the snow depth because the wind has blown it into drifts.
Have a good trip to Maui. - Tom
Yep, not even a flurry...not even all that cold. Did you build a snowman?
LOL!!! I'm not even the cookie chair........these are just the cookies our 2 girls sold. We got it down to manageable proportion, though. All cookies needed for delivery tomorrow and Tuesday have been sorted and are out of hte house. We'll do the rest on Tuesday.
The church where the troop meets allowed the picking up to be done there, and one of the local volunteer Fire Companies opens their bingo hall for the cookies for all troops in the area to be delivered, and the cookie chairs to pick them up.
This is the first time I've ever dealt with it.
This is my first time..........the gal down the road and I are halfway through sorting the cookies our daughters sold, I'm glad I was in charge of dealing with all of the cookies from a troop of 24....just our 2 was enough for me :)
When I last saw my car buried under that white stuff in up-state NY, I resolved to escape snow forever, and did so. I even refuse to eat a snow cone. In the coming ice age, I'm heading for Costa Rica.
I'm not an arborist, but I would think that cutting the outer branches and let the others grow more up than out. Maybe someone out there knows exactly what to do.
I've seen lots of trees split and breeak from snow and ice. Trouble is, we haven't seen serious snow in many years. No ice either.
We lost power sometime during the night, a neighbor said around 3AM. Woke up to about a foot of snow here in Western Fairfax County. Started a fire in the fire place. Cleared out 3 cars and the driveway. Bmw cleared our neighbors driveway, they are in Florida. Power came back at 4PM. The worst part was missing the Olympics!
War protestors, here? Lord no. This is Bush country. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh give the state a bad liberal odor, but PA is mostly conservative.
Why the weather is so friendly here, I don't know. It's really strange though.
Every time I get bothered by the snow, I think about all the other things we don't have here in the Northeast -- serious hurricanes, serious tornadoes, fire ants, killer bees, serious droughts, serious floods vinyl bondage alerts, huge bugs, earthquakes, etc. Yes, the snow can be a pain but in the big scheme of things, I'd rather have the snow we get than fire ants.
After years of no serious snow or ice, you better be ready when it comes because ALL those branches that come down every year, a little at a time, will come down all at once. It happened here and there were a lot of communities without power for a week.
No, I divorced one ten years ago and that was enough.
Mine grew to 30 feet in seven years, and then was felled by a hurricane, taking down a large juniper bush and half a King Crimson maple. My solution is never to have a Bradford Pear if you can avoid it, and if you have one already, consider sawing it off flat and making a garden bench out of the stump.
I've seen what ice will do.
Mr and Mrs... I woke up at 2am to see lightning in the midst of the snowstorm, but I didn't hear any thunder. I went to work today, commute was fun, I forgot to take a camera with me. It was very pretty at 7am. A couple of knuckleheads in little cars did stupid stuff, like try to drive in snow deeper than they had ground clearance. 4WD comes in handy on mornings like this one was. (Somebody on another thread said he/she liked to stop in his 4WD vehicle and ask those stuck folks "What Kind of gas mileage do you get?" and then drive on)
NE NJ - about 12 miles from NYC (the way the crow flies).
I guess we had about 14-16 inches of heavy fluff. My bamboo is bent all which way, but drifting is minimal ---- most of it piled at the front door. Beautiful out there. Not as awesome as an ice storm, but easier on the power lines and tall trees. DH did two sweeps with the blower and just as he was taking it back to its resting place, it hit a clunker and clunked out. Something is broken. Thank goodness the work was already done!
We had been at CPAC and left yesterday AM, too -- in rain with some drops of slush mixed in, but I outran it by the time we hit Baltimore. I had time to shop for milk/bread/toilet paper and booze, then refill all the birdfeeders before the first flakes started. I'm sorry we missed the last day at CPAC, but I'd rather see the white stuff from a room with a fireplace and windows than from a car windshield.
Gabz -- At one time I was cookie chairman for my area. Boxes and boxes and boxes in my living room! Then there was the job of delivering them all. It is easier remembering it than living it!!
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