Strong winds

[lawrence d]

Power has been out here for three days large maple tree fell on the power line
Caused a large fire across the road from me
fire department response was really slow and when they did show my neighbors house was right in its path they got it stopped in time
They are saying Monday here for restoring power looks like winter is back so no sap to boil
I have a small generator helps keep me warm

[Tweegs]

We got power back 8 PM last night.
The wife, the cat, the chickens…they’re all happy.

Dashed my plans for camping out in front of the woodstove, though.
Not sure how I feel about that, was almost looking forward to it.

Of course, my luck, an ant would have crawled out of the wood pile and tried to take up residence in my ear. Would’ve ruined the whole experience.

Bah, best I just went to bed. I’m getting a little long in the tooth for those types of shenanigans anyway.

[Michael Greer]

It was pretty scary here in far Northern New York. Power went off a couple times, but came back pretty quick. The wind too a huge 30" branch off of one of my favorite trees.

[Cedar Eater]

I ended up finding one stem from one of my tapped clump reds on the ground yesterday. It snapped off above the tap. I don't know what to expect from that tap during the next run. I cut the stem up and it was mostly dead at the top.

[David in MI]

Our power still hasn't been restored yet. Before everything froze up solid we got two boils in but without the RO. Had to dump around 300 gallons of sap we'd been holding while waiting on the previous freeze up. Now have around 600-700 gallons in tank. I sure miss my RO!

We do have a whole-house standby generator but it has its own propane tank and we're running pretty low. Hopefully we'll get power back tonight. Ugh, what a season.

[toquin]

David

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[highlandcattle]

Here on our city lot, had a blue spruce uproot behind the one garage. No root system. Took out 2 sections of stockade fencing. Really high winds. Hoping we find a buyer soon to get back to the country. Our poor tree made Channel 20 news. No power out. Not used to being dependent on National Grid for power, miss the wood stove. We're switching to coal when we move. Found a great Amish coal stove. Good luck everyone

[karl evans]

Here in Northeast Ohio it has been the worst couple months I ever remember for wind &damage. I have had atleast 10 uprooted trees along with many broke off tops &, limbs. It has been constant work to clean up & fix damage in the woods just since tapping. One begins to wonder how any trees live to an old age. Sure hope we don't have another time period this windy for a long time.

[Tweegs]

Harvested nearly 3 cord of wood from blow downs over the weekend.
Plenty more to get.
<shrug> cold snap…nothing better to do.