Wind Storm 2006
Greeted at the door by a misplaced tree.
Looking back towards the house. How lucky we are!
It landed between the house and garage. Mary’s car was parked right here.
This is actually two trees and they block the driveway.
My chainsaw is not big enough to clear the road.
The view of another part of our homestead.
Two trees uprooted and two more stage left.
I didn’t make it to work. Instead Mary and I worked all day clearing the drive and weather sealing a storage shed that got hit. All told, we have lost 9 trees. These are large and mature trees. These trees are 20″ to 25″ in diameter. I’m thankful for the help of my kind neighbor, Kevin. He has a large tractor and a bigger chainsaw. He came over around eight and we were hard at it all day. He took a break to attend his great aunt’s funural. We headed to town to get coffee and a tarp. It was a pretty scary storm. Locally the wind reached a peak speed of 77 mph. We lost power in the wee hours of the night and it finally came on at 4:30 pm.
The landscape has changed. We are going to have to spend a lot of time this spring cleaning up the mess. Even as I write this the wind is howling outside. The wind is slowing, we are safe, we are warm and really sore. The forecast is now for cold temperatures and snow.
