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Snow in December on Christmas Eve doesn't sound like a big deal if you're from up North but if you live South an ice/snow storm used to be unusual. 9 inches of wet heavy snow wreaked havoc on the city of Little Rock, Arkansas. Today signs of its destruction 2 months later is still apparent with destroyed trees and debris that still line the curbs with piles of broken tree limbs and brush. The city had forewarned that it might be at least 200 days before pickup might be possible. They weren't kidding. No yard was left unscathed. My parents beautiful camelia bush is no longer full as its 14 ft center is now missing.
Companies has been subcontracted to pick up the debris and there are drop off places in parks if you have the means to haul your own mess. When I arrived on Thursday, my brother had a UHaul trailer filled with yard stuff even though trucks had come by once on his street. Since it was his birthday, I was a good sister and helped him unload the truck at the park drop off.
Mother Nature did a major pruning and it will be obvious for a while that she got a bit overzealous...
This happen to us in 2009. The ice storm went on for hours. 1/2 of our forested canopy is gone. Because we have 5 acres, the damage was immense. The only trees that escaped were small tree that could bend without breaking. I still want to cry when I look at our windows and see the "hangers", limbs that broke but are still hanging. Many trees died 2-3 years later. On the positive side, the wood peckers love all of the dead trees.
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