Re: More strange fall weather
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  • Subject: Re: More strange fall weather
  • From: Z* <z*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 17:53:24 -0500
I'm glad it wasn't worse. I still haven't heard from my friends in
Connecticut. This has truly been the strangest weather I can remember.


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On Nov 2, 2011, at 5:38 PM, Aplfgcnys@aol.com wrote:

> I don't suppose anyone else was snowed in over the weekend as we were.
> We had eight inches, and were without power for three days.  Not fun.  We
> have a small generator that supplies us with heat, refrigeration and water, 
> but
> no lights.  Thank goodness for that, though - a hot shower is one of the 
> world's
> greatest luxuries.  We didn't run it all the time - just long enough at a 
> time to
> get done what needed to be done.  Even that required filling the tank with
> gasoline, which was awkward for tottery oldsters like us, but we managed.
> 
> The temperatures were not too bad - above freezing most days. We had had
> a load of firewood delivered last week, so that helped, even though the wood
> was hard to get to through the snow.
> 
> Much breakage of trees, since they were all still in full leaf.  We haven't 
> been
> able to get down to the back to see just how bad it is, but we can see major
> limbs down from the Scholar Tree, and I'm pretty sure my curly willow is 
> down.
> The top is out of the crabapple tree, and a big branch is down from a grey
> birch.  Can't tell about the Kousa dogwood, but it may have lost some limbs,
> too.  Oh well.  
> 
> Now if the snow will just melt I can get the rest of my bulbs planted.  The 
> flower beds are surely finished.
> 
> Hope noone else had weather problems.
> 
> Auralie
> 
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