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thalia_seawoodWe've already had a lot of snow this year. In fact, it was a perfect winter so far: It got cold early in December and stayed cold, we also had snow nearly for the entire time. But the snow fall right now tops everything so far.
It snowed heavily on Friday morning, but then it got warm and the snow was basically all gone in the evening. I went to bed cheerfully, hoping for spring. Woke up fairly early on Saturday, because so much light came in through the window. I got up, looked outside, and it was snowing heavily. And it hasn't stopped snowing since then. (I think the snow is about 70 cm deep so far, when I stand in our garden it comes up over my knees.)
The problem is that it's not really cold, just around 0° C and the snow is *incredibly* heavy and sticky. It doesn't slide of plants or anything else, it sticks to it. Our lilac tree lost one of his branches this morning, because the snow was too heavy for it. (I hope we can save the rest of the tree, because I was fond of it.) All of the trees and bushes are bending under the weight of the snow. When we went to see a friend this evening, we saw numerous trees that had lost branches. In some cases, the branches have fallen onto the road and are completely blocking it.
Looked at the weather forecast and it seems the snowfall won't stop for the next couple of days.
It snowed heavily on Friday morning, but then it got warm and the snow was basically all gone in the evening. I went to bed cheerfully, hoping for spring. Woke up fairly early on Saturday, because so much light came in through the window. I got up, looked outside, and it was snowing heavily. And it hasn't stopped snowing since then. (I think the snow is about 70 cm deep so far, when I stand in our garden it comes up over my knees.)
The problem is that it's not really cold, just around 0° C and the snow is *incredibly* heavy and sticky. It doesn't slide of plants or anything else, it sticks to it. Our lilac tree lost one of his branches this morning, because the snow was too heavy for it. (I hope we can save the rest of the tree, because I was fond of it.) All of the trees and bushes are bending under the weight of the snow. When we went to see a friend this evening, we saw numerous trees that had lost branches. In some cases, the branches have fallen onto the road and are completely blocking it.
Looked at the weather forecast and it seems the snowfall won't stop for the next couple of days.
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Date: 2006-03-05 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-05 12:32 am (UTC)We have steep roofs in our area, despite this the snow doesn't slide down again.
Check out this picture (http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,590567,00.jpg) of firemen clearing the roof of a house from the snow. The roof would have collapsed under the snow otherwise.
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