While he was on his trip, I was dealing with the aftermath of a wind and ice storm here. All week I had been watching the Vermont weather with a wary eye. Rain and sleet, followed by temperatures below zero and high wind. Hmmm...I had that funny feeling in my gut that I know not to ignore, so on Thursday, I took a ride up to our house. About a mile and a half from our house, I noticed that the trees had a thick coating of ice and there were tons of branches everywhere. Then I saw a number of trucks and various equipment from a power company other than our own. Uh oh. There was that knot in my stomach again. When I got to the house, there was part of a tree blocking the driveway. There were lots of big branches everywhere, including on our back deck. But the biggest problem was the branch that was laying on the power wires to our house...
So of course when the branch knocked the wire down into the driveway, it pulled the pipe containing the wires off the side of the house....
Luckily the power was still actually on in spite of this. I later found out that power was off throughout much of the valley for about 12 hours the day before. So I called the power company, expecting that it would be forever before they would come and do my repairs...the nice lady on the phone told me they would fix it that afternoon, so I came back home. According to what they tell me on the phone, my wires are all fixed at this point. We'll see when I go up there tomorrow.
The lesson here is that you have to follow that gut feeling you get...
The local Vermont paper has a reporter (or photographer?) who has recently started a blog iSquangle which has better pictures of the storm.
1 comment:
Brrrr, makes me glad I live in Memphis, which hasn't had any ice or snow yet. :)
It looks pretty remote, lots of woods around you, so at least you'd have firewood to burn if the power does go out!
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