

As I am putting on my newly taped chain on my tire though I am still parked in front of my neighbors house, my car is running so the windows can defrost some of the ice before I take my window scraper to it, and I hear this loud crack! I look up to see her gutter swinging right for me! I jump to the right and turn around to discover that a branch from a tree across the street from hers had snapped and pulled down some power lines that swung across the street and attached to her house. The power line managed to stay attached and she didnt lose her power, but it hung low with one of the smaller branches still dangling from it. I look at her house, and I look at the power line dangling, then I look at the big branch sitting in front of my car where I once stood. I just kinda stopped to take it in, and didnt realize that a lady up the hill (in ski's) and a guy shoveling his car out across the way also stood shocked and dumbfounded like me. And just as quickly as it happened the guy went back to work on his shoveling and the lady continued to ski down her hill, just then the neighbor came out of her house and started making small talk with me, I asked her if she didnt hear all that from inside her house...she hadnt and once she looked up, she was not happy to find her gutter swinging in the air with her electricty potentially ready to pull its own plug. I really wanted my car out of there and even managed to joke with her about how, I think my own parking spot might actually be safer, and I am taking the risk and parking back there tonight. I guess if a tree is going to fall on me or my car it might as well just do it already, just let me make sure I have 'tree' coverage on my insurance first. (which I do...I checked...whew)
This picture shows the hanging powerline in the middle and off the the right, you can see her gutter hanging off her house, the tire marks is where my car was.

After all was said and done, I finished my shopping, my car has no snow on it, and can handle the next 3 inches coming tomorrow morning and my chains are still safely on my car, snug as a bug in a rug!

1 comment:
Wow! Rigged up chains and avoiding catastrophe - I have no name for that. Actually I do, but I shant say it. :)
I have to admit that your snow is horrible! it is much softer than the stuff we have. Ours has a lot of Ice in it and it is not so WET! Hard to explain, but it equals easier driving. I have seen so many pictures of your weather and I can't get enough. Unbelievable! So glad you are able to function though.
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