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Is it Really April?

The song says " when April showers come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May so when it's raining, Have no regret " (but we're not getting rain you know We're getting snow here yet .) Mother Nature's defied us. The seasons a fright . The violets are hiding, the green grass is white. Below are some views of the 2 inch icy coating after 24 hours of freezing rain and 20 degrees.

April 4th 2003

This was followed by another 24 hours of freezing rain, sleet and heavy winds.

April 5th 2003

I went out to take pictures of the massive destruction we had over night. The ice was so heavy and wind gusting so hard that all of a sudden it sounded like I was in the middle of an artillery attack. You could see the tree limbs falling over a quarter of a mile away while the noise was frightful. Cracking and crashing, one after another. When the branch fell on the wire almost directly over my head I ran for the house. Safety won out over great pictures. We were very lucky. None of our huge maples fell on the house. Our electricity was only out for 23 hours. Many of our neighbors had none for over 3 days as the companies struggled to clear fallen wires and tree limbs from the roads, fields and woods. There were even a few poles down.

April 8th It happened again, freezing temps and 3 inches of wet heavy snow. Is there no end ?

Just a few days ago, I finally got out to photograph some of the terrible destruction of trees nearby. Following are pictures of a reforested area that was planted by the high school Future Farmers of America, working with the NY State conservation Dept. Our son Louis was one of the young men who planted these trees in 1971. These pictures do not truly show the total devastation of thousands of trees that looked like they were sheared off by helicopter blades on the top. Acres of fallen limbs on the ground, trees uprooted from the weight of the ice. It broke my heart to see this.

And this is a willow that lost a large limb. It grows on the edge of our town park

More of April 2003

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