It started sleeting/snowing about dark on Christmas Day. Once it got deep enough on the driveway I forced Abby to make a snow angel so I could get a photo.
The snow was wet and very heavy and by late that night had begun to take a heavy toll on the Bradford pear trees.
We got up the next morning and found nine inches of snow on the ground. The photo of the house is a panoramic of five or six shots stitched together in Photoshop. A major chunk of Little Rock and the surrounding area lost power for up to seven days. Somehow we didn’t lose power at any time while most of the neighborhoods surrounding ours were dark for the better part of a week.
Every winter storm in this part of the world brings a lot of fun but there’s always a price to pay: the aforementioned power outages and carnage to the vegetation. Ornamental species and pines always get the worst of it. We’ve got several old Bradford pear trees that apparently hadn’t been ravaged by snow and ice in a few years. They made up for lost time. Trees fell into the streets and the main street into our subdivision was blocked for several days by a downed power pole.
Plus it was pretty windy as evidenced by the horizontal icicles.
Our neighborhood has a couple of nice hills and we joined the other local kids in a sledding bonanza.
Abby is easily beaten in a snowball fight.
Then the fun was over and the cleanup began. I had to buy a chainsaw. I went through a major ice storm cleanup in 2009 in Fayetteville and I was hoping to avoid having to ever do that again. Read about my feelings on chainsaws here and see the 2009 damage here.
