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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdbY5fBiVV0

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i live in highland lakes, some some of the nj/ny/pa guys may have seen it on the news. It was on all day on chanel 12, don't know abotu the other channels. We just got out power back today, it's been out since thursday. It was raining and freezing so quickly that all of the trees got weighed down to the point that they were just snapping. I have 40 foot trees that the tops are touching the ground right now, but they're not broken. Whole town lost power, my neighbor still doesn't have any. Crazy, crazy ****. I took about 60 pictures, and will be uploading them once I get my camera back, also took a video which i'll try to get up tonight. I had about 15 or so trees down on my property, and had to pull on the front lawn so my car didn't get hit. surely, a huge tree broke at the stump and fell right across where me and steph park our cars.

thursday night, we were outside the garage until about 3am when we were just too exhausted to watch anymore, but literally the trees were coming down everywhere non stop. Sounds like glass breaking because they were so covered with ice. the ice was about an inch thick around every branch and twig. to put it into perspective, a small branch that weighs maybe 5 pounds or so normally was too heavy to carry, had to be dragged.

i know it was all over the news, but it's one of those things that the news doesn't do justice. amazing how the peple just came together with their chainsaws and worked as a team. we cleared out the whole street, moved the downed power lines, it was pretty cool. the kicker is that if you drive 5 minutes away, it's like nothing happened.

busted my ass all day today cutting the trees down and clearing the yard. won't have to buy wood next year

pics will be up when i get my camera back.

 

Yeah, Albany county was one of the hardest hit. I was out driving in that **** (was on my way home from work that night when it was coming down the worst). Roads were awful...

 

sub'd for pics.. that shitty.. its like 40 in buffalo right now so we didnt get any ice

 

roads by me were fine. we live in a lake community and part of our anual dues go towards road cleanup in the winter. if snow is even on the forecast, the salt and sand goes down and the trucks are out waiting. if you tried walking on the grass you probably would have done a backflip though

 

pics

 

i put a link in the first post. let me now if it doesn't work. majority of the pics are of my property, a few are of the street in front of my house.

 

I hate to say it but it looks awesome/beautiful!

 

dude, it was absolutely gorgeous. one of the most amazing things i've ever seen.

driving up today, there is this one point where it just goes from green and dry to covered in ice.

 

yea, thats a hell of a mess. seen that kinda **** around here before too. up at my grandparents it looks that way after some of the snowstorms they get.

 

me and my buddy had to clear out the road so we could drive out. my entire body is killing me right now. plus yesterday i had to video a weekend, so that is making me tired/sore as well

 

Glad you got your power back and everyone is safe. Two of our members here (Maxim_x and Tityrous) are electrical lineman who are currently working insane hours to get the power back up to all of those who lost it during the ice storm.

 

thanks. and yea, the guys have been out non-stop working, it's pretty crazy. the tree service guys are roaming the neighborhood today too

 

Dam thats crazy, its currently snowing here in the valley which is pretty rare.

Hope everything turns out alright.

 

pretty nuts

 

Yeah man. I'm on call for a lineman apprenticeship. All this crazy long hour storm work is intense but the pay makes it all worth it in the end. Maxim_x spent a month in texas after that last big hurricane went through there this past fall. I'm a little jealous of them to be honest! I'd love to be able to travel like that for work and have that feeling of doing something good while being out there.

 

Down by me we didn't get ****

I heard about up by you, **** that.

 

SWEET christmas tree.

 

haha, you guys get ice storms, we get these.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYFPPzQLSww

not my video, but i just found it after a 5sec search

 

We had a storm like that last winter, Lost power for like 4 days and we live on a state route. We had like 8 inchs of snow then we got an ungodly amount of ice on top of it all, I have pics of tree branches just encased in like 1 inch of solid ice. It was pretty and kinda neat just didnt like the whole no power thing lol

il try to dig up some pics

 

haha, it's not usually like that though. it's a really cool place to live actually.

thanks mang

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95SYdjRVCR0

 

i hope nothing happened to my house upstate near hunter mountain. Lots of trees lots of potential for bad stuff.

 

Our county is stupid and puts the salt down AFTER the storm hits...

Thank god for Blizzaks.

My buddy who lives down the road from me just had his power restored... it was out since Thursday. Said it went down to 39 in his house

 

yea, mine was about hte same. thursday night we had a fire going, but i ran out of dry wood so we had to throw some wet wood on. smoked the place out but ****, it was deal with some smoke or freeze our asses off.

this is what i've cut so far. still have about 7 trees to cut up, can't get to them until the ice thaws a little more. it's a decent amount, i won't have to buy wood next year that's for sure

 

that is crazy man. get some rest. looks like it was alot of work.