Yesterday afternoon a winter storm set in, first rain, then snow, followed by ice, broken trees falling on power lines and the whole city is practically paralyzed for the next day or two. Luckily my neighborhood has underground power lines because many trees are breaking due to the heavy ice coating all of the trees. The river birch branches in my front yard is suffering from a heavy coat of ice and I fear that it's a goner. My neighbor's large birch is falling on my blue spruce in the front yard. Her house is unoccupied as her house is up for sale and she's living elsewhere. Her large tree in the backyard is breaking and falling on the privacy fence, damaging the fence. In the backyard, my blue spruces and the gorgeous magnolia tree which was in full bud, seems to be doing OK, but probably won't bloom this year.
I just saw on the news that 135,000 homes are without power in Iowa.
December and January were nice warm months in Iowa, and then about a week into February all heck broke loose, first with below freezing temps and now this. It was in the high 50s on Thurs of this week.
I hope that you all are doing fine with the weather in your area and life is treating all of your kitties well.
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Ruby and the Kitties
Simba, Samantha, Katrina & KatyKatt
Meow!! Meow!! Meow!! Meow!!
