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Besides this one cool photo....
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...The iced swingset...
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...a messy street (yup, that's a tree in the road)...
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...a very bent tree...
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...a buried car...
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....this is my side yard...
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...that's Ethan's truck under there...
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That is our miraculously unharmed brand new shed.
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So the answer to the question is...when a Nor'easter comes through in the fall and dumps 12"+ of heavy wet snow on trees that still have lots of leaves it makes for a big mess and a huge power outage in about half the state. We were only out of power for about a day (no Internet until 4 days later) but my parents are on day 4 with no power. And the mess will take a long time to clean up.