Any Torontonians here negatively affected by the ice storm?
I tell ya working from home suuuure has it's benefits.
I knew the ice storm was coming, so I made sure I was stocked up and wouldn't have to leave the house for a while, ...but Holy Moley I did not expect it to be this bad. I don't think anyone did. I was speaking with my Aunt, and one of her best friends lives down my street. My Aunt was surprised to hear me report such little damage, when her friend had described what to her sounded like a war-zone. Apparently the street and driveways were cordoned off with yellow police tape. No cars in or out, until crews could move trees off roadways, and take down precariously dangling branches. So I finally ventured outside for the first time since the storm. WOW!
I cannot believe the devastation around me. It looks like a tornado had ripped through my street.
Everywhere I turn, nothing but devastation, downed trees snapped like twigs, frozen in time.
I am feeling so incredibly blessed right now. It's like there was a little bubble of protection over my house, while the brunt of the storm ravaged my neighbours. So far as I can tell, only damage is one small branch from one tree in front of my house snapped. My neighbours weren't so lucky... Entire trees gone... Every single branch crudely ripped from their trunks... and frozen in place with nothing holding them together but ice. In some cases, nothing but crude 3 foot diameter spikes jutting from the ground. Each house probably has firewood for the next 5 years, possibly even longer.
Trees in the winter are bare, no foliage, just bare branches and twigs, ...yet the trees still standing look like they are in full bloom, bursting with foliage ... bunches upon bunches of ice cherries. Life sized pieces of Murano glass art. Everything, ...and i do mean everything is coated in a thick layer of crystal clear ice, flash frozen in time. I can't possibly describe how incredibly beautiful it all is. How can such beauty & such devastation exist as one? My mind is totally blown.