some ice is a fallen

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jimmyq

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Burnaby, BC
Had some freezing rain fall overnight here, prolly not a huge deal to an East coast ice storm but its news for us. I had a good day, I was standing in a 10 acre back yard, listening to the rain fall a bit with a hissing sound and the crackling and groaning of the trees that were breakin and stretching.. man, zen like I must say, froze my cohones off (only just freezing out but I wasnt working or anyhing so ya, I was cold.) for about an hour just standing, listening, looking and thinking. very cool.
 

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posted a handful and lost track, here is another and I apologize if its a duplicate. just for the record, these picture files are JPEG format and are between 400 and 1000K, dialup beware. cheerio y'all. work safe.
 

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Dang Jimmyq, you Canadiens sure have some blue rivers! /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif Looks like the kinda water you only see in the Carribeans. (i.e. first pic)
 
Jimmy-

Nice Pics. Reminds me of how the good ol' boys in Missouri got the stupid Californian one day.

We had an ice storm just like that and Bradford Pears were bending every which way. So we were going out to tip them back and relieve as much stress as possible. My climber says,"you want me just to get you the pole gear". I tell him, "what do you think I am stupid enough to climb that thing!"

I take the pole gear and proceed to start tipping back limbs. I get to one that is a little bigger than I should have probably been cutting and I gave it a sharp, quick tug to set the head.

I am sure all you frozen tundra guys are already laughing, but I will continue the story for all the warm folks.

The leaves that were on the trees had a beautiful coating of ice just like your pics. Unfortunately they are not near as pretty when they are pegging you right between the eyes from about 20 feet when you are cold as hell. And of course like any good treeguy would my crew asked if I was okay and then proceeded to crack up for about the next fifteen minutes saying, "I knew that you were going to do that, HA ha haa".

As Mark likes to say I am a student of my stupidity, and I moved back to Cali were I belong the next summer.

Brian
 
wct... ya and the water comes up from the ground in these regular rectangle shapes...with slides and stairs built to facilitate gettin in and out.

woodpecker. to be honest I was a bit dumb and was walking (very gingerly) around the trees, I tell those crackle snap pop sounds will pucker your hind end up when you cant see whats coming down at you. like a nervous squirrel I tell ya, lookin up at every noise.


its all gone now though, we warmed up real fast and got a good start on five days of rain, 2 to 4 inches per is the forecast, lots of minor flooding allready.
 
Jimmy-

Sounds like you have the right idea, though. You can't be to careful when the weather is like that. Looks real pretty from inside the house, but it is dangerous. I didn't say before that the lead foreman broke his wrist falling on a driveway walking back to the truck with the check in that same ice storm.

Stay safe & climb another day,

Brian
 
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