The aftermath of the ice storm...postdate

No pictures, just some comments.

I went outside today and drove around town and a little ways out of town to survey the ice damage. I forgot to take my camera with me but I don't even think pictures would show the full image. Pretty sad out there. A regular war zone of ice damage. It makes my previous post of the photos of our yard and neighbors pretty tame.

You don't even think about the destruction mother nature can provide from a little ice and wind and sub temperatures. Living in Covington we knew what downed trees after a severe snow storm looked like. Trees toppled over like dominoes. Out here all along the river the birch and alder snapped like toothpicks. Big fir trees in town, where my grand kids go to play on the slides and swings, three grand daddy sized trees that were two feet in diameter broke off and they had to cut them down to 3 foot stumps. Wild! It's all taped off and you cannot go into the park because of broken limbs still needing to be removed or just hanging. Pretty trees that go along the side of the road before entering Orting either broken and pulled up out of the ground from the weight of the ice. We were pretty blessed that the ice damage didn't last more than two days.

It reminds me of when our son Douglas and his father-in-law Joe drove to Alabama to help clean up after the massive tornado damage last year. He said you can't even imagine what to expect. You drive along and everything is beautiful with rolling hills and then it hits you right out in the front of the vehicle you span a several mile wide path of destruction and homes just gone and only the foundation left and with trees so twisted and torqued that when you went to cut into them with a chain saw it was hard to cut and then the trees would close down onto the chain saw and you couldn't remove it.

It truly makes us humble and thankful that we were spared and blessed that no harm came to us from this ice storm. We prayed! Thank you dear Lord for sparing us!