Take Me Back Tuesday

October 13, 2006
"October Storm"

So 3 years ago today we woke up to this...

(please note that my husband is 6'2" tall and the snow is up to his knees)

Let me start from the night before. The snow started on Thursday, Oct.12th. I woke up in the around11pm to the sounds of cracking. I came downstairs and asked my husband what was going on. I took one look outside and freaked out. The cracking noise was from ALL of the tree limbs outside and the power lines. I opened the door and saw this. I wanted to take more photos, but my husband yelled at me and told me to get my (pregnant) butt inside because it was dangerous out there. You see, I was due with my daughter in January.
We tried to look in the back yard with a flash light. We have a HUGE maple tree in our yard and were worried a limb would hit the house. We really could not see anything so we went back to bed. I had just fell back to sleep when I heard a thud and felt the house shake. All I have to say is thank God we have a Florida room, because this limb pictured below would have went though a window. So back to Friday, Oct 13th (yes it was Friday the 13th). Jeff shoveled that morning for what seemed like forever. Being pregnant I couldn't lift the really HEAVY wet snow. The photos below are of our cars and my son being taller than my car...he was 5.
My back yard looked like a bomb went off...

So did the rest of the neighborhood...
What a difference 24hrs makes. This is the front if my house Saturday AM. Most of the snow has melted already. It was just crazy.
We finally could look in the backyard to assess the damage. This is the view of my backyard from my neighbors driveway.
We were so lucky that there was no real damage. We had limbs on my son's swing set (I bought that swing set 2 months before), the shed...

and our Florida room...
We were VERY lucky. We never lost power, but the street behind us did. Many people were without power for over a week (including my brother in law that lives around the corner). We did have our phone line cut because it ended up pulling off my house (no internet). My bestest friend's husband came over with a chain saw and he helped my husband cut all of the limbs and take them to the curb. We filled the front of my house and my neighbors house with wood. We went over their house and my husband helped him do the same thing with their yard...they have a HUGE yard with LOTS of trees.

So you say, what is the big deal? You live in Buffalo and should be used to snow storms...

This snow storm was NOT normal. Most of our trees had not lost their leaves yet. That and we received 2 feet of HEAVY, WET snow in such a short period of time.

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