They should be fine...I hope that was a really strong hive going into the winter. My 2 here are still going good. sorry I didn;t return your calls both times when you called I was working on snow. I borrowed my neighbor's bob cat and moved the snow piles back took me 5 hrs. and I was pretty **** frozen when I Was done I must have dumped a few hundred pounds of snow on myself too. and then I was shoveling off the roof for 2 days!!!

So besides that stuff I was able to get out in the woods a little bit rough going got things pretty much ready to go. still a few things here and there. Started tapping this afternoon. didn;t get to many in it was warm and I was wet!!! hit alot of "quick snow" walking along fine and poof up past my waste... then I gotta get out....