A few weeks ago, we had our first real snowstorm of the season. One of our neighbors said it was the most damaging snowfall they experienced on their property in the 37 years they’ve lived there. Our generator ran for three days, and we’re still picking up branches here and there on our property.
Twenty-four inches fell over the course of a couple days, but it wasn’t the amount of snow that caused the damage. It was the weight. The snow was so wet when it came down that it stuck to everything it landed on and kept building on itself. As a result, an untold number of trees broke under the weight.
Our biggest loss was my wife’s favorite tree, a double-trunked Dogwood in our front yard. Through the summer it looked like it wasn’t the healthiest tree, so I pounded half a dozen fertilizer spikes into the ground in hopes that, along with the fall rainfall, it would look better in spring. After two days of snow, it seemed to be bearing up under the weight. But finally it could hold up no longer. Both trunks snapped in half. Even our healthiest 40’ spruce was bent over
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