We hates snow! We ALWAYS hates it!

(Apologies to Gollum for the syntax of the title. 🙂 )

I am totally disgusted. Last night we got our first snow of the season. GoddessJ said that it wasn’t supposed to stick — it stuck. She said it would be gone by morning — it’s after noon now, and it’s still here. In fact, there’s a good two or three inches out there right now. It’s not even Halloween! 🙁

It was a very heavy, wet snow too. To the point that, on the way home from an appointment this morning, GoddessJ and I counted forty-two trees that had lost large branches. There were five intersections where the traffic lights were out because they’d lost power. Part of our little street was blocked off by a police car (presumably because power lines had fallen across the road, but I couldn’t tell for sure). It looks like the neighbor behind us has one of his neighbor’s entire trees down in his back yard.

I always wondered why deciduous trees drop their leaves every Autumn, and spend all that energy creating new ones in the Spring. Now I know: when they don’t (as they hadn’t yet this year), they’re too vulnerable to a heavy snowfall.

Time to move someplace a little warmer. Aruba, perhaps. 😉

3 Comments

  1. That’s one reason why, the main reason why according to botanists is that the leaves, when exposed to frost and snow and the like, become damaged. Sort of the tree version of severe frostbite, and this is unhealthy for the tree.

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