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| April 8, 2003 - I
arrived home after six days in Illinois and Iowa to find
that an ice storm had caused major damage in the
neighborhood. The good news - Although the power had been
out for nearly four days, it had come back on shortly
before I returned. The bad news - My two maple trees were
coated with ice and around two dozen large limbs had
fallen into the back yard. Fortunately, most of them
missed the house; one, however, punched a hole through
the roof and suspended ceiling of the sun room. |
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 The Culprit |
 View from inside with the ceiling tiles removed |
 April 10 - My neighbor helped me get some broken limbs out of the trees and then I spent several hours cutting up and stacking the branches |
 The trees are going to look a little bald this summer |
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 April 15, 2003 - The mess has been cleaned up, resulting in 26 bundles of small branches, 2 yard waste bags of twigs and enough firewood to last me a long, long time (everything above the fourth level is courtesy of the storm). |
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