We had a horrible ice storm in early April. The entire city looked as though a tornado went through. There were so many broken branches. You played a game of Russian roulette every time you walked outside because you didn't know if a branch was going to fall on your head. The poor trees couldn't take the weight of the ice so you'd hear a loud crack and then a huge bang as the branch would hit the ground. We lost power for five hours but we were lucky compared to some. Some people were without power for days.
These pictures don't show how much damage we had. I think we were hit the hardest in our neighborhood. We have over 70 trees, so you can imagine what our yard looked like. My pear tree came out okay, so I was really happy about that!
We had an entire pine tree go down in the backyard but it didn't hit anything, thankfully. We were wanting to cut that tree down anyhow because it was dead, so I guess that's one good thing that came out of the storm.
Our greenhouse was smashed in. I'm not sure how that's going to get fixed. We turned it into insurance so we're waiting to hear back from them. The greenhouse is 30 years old, so it's hard to find someone to fix it. I'd just tear it out, but it's right in the front of our house. I always thought it was a goofy place to put a greenhouse. Not sure what we'd do with a big gaping hole.
Mike and I were pretty overwhelmed with all of the work and didn't even know where to start. My dad happened to stop through that day because he was going to look at some car parts. He took one look at our yard and one look at us and decided to skip the car parts and help us. Steve and Sarah also came over that day and helped. Thankfully, the township said they would pick the branches up if you had them on the side of the road. We spent all day dragging branches to the road. Thank God for family!
The weekend after that, Tom, Andrea, Mark, and Bernie helped. We had to rent a boom-lift to cut the rest of the branches that were broken. A tree company gave us an estimate and they priced it out at $3800 dollars. We had 20+ trees that needed branches cut off. We said no thank-you! The boom-lift was $250 to rent and we did it ourselves. It was a lot of work, but I'm so happy that it's done. We had two more huge piles for the township to pick up again. They came yesterday and hauled it away.
I have a feeling Mike is going to make me do more yard work this weekend. We have a ton of raking to do. It's funny how one little storm can do so much damage!
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