Not so bad...

Thursday, our area has been hit with heavy snow. Although that isn't unusual... It is unusual for it to occur while the trees still have most of their leaves.

This combination resulted in many trees becoming heavily damaged, and taking power lines down with them. For some, the power went out on Thursday evening, and for some the power is still out.

With electricity being unavailable in many area's, water pumping station problems, blocked streets from trees and electric wires... Many streets are lined with down tree branches, and some streets were blocked by downed trees. Things have been a mess.

The water quality has also been in question. There have been warnings for people to boil the water before drinking it. Nukie learned the hard way, but I hear he feels better now.

I should have taken pictures on Friday, because it was quite surreal... I took some pics that I will try to post later, but you cannot really get a feel for what things were like.

The interesting thing is, you see the affect for something like this, which is really quite a small interruption compared to area's that are hit with tornadoes, hurricanes, major flooding, 9/11, war etc. I can't imagine how difficult it must be to deal with a big catastrophe.

There are people here at work - going wacky because they cannot get their morning coffee.

- Wak