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The Great Melt

Written by on December 28, 2009 – 5:53 pm16 Comments | 3 Read this

After the great freeze, we woke up to the great melt. The weather got a bit warmer overnight and all the ice accu­mu­lated had started to melt.

Trees were lit­er­ally shed­ding ice. Every blast of wind shook the tree limbs, coated in ice — it sounded like a wind chime. We were lucky: no power line snapped in our neighborhood.

Side­walks are flooded though and yet a lot of the ice hasn’t melted, even though roads are clean now. It doesn’t just look like win­ter: it feels like it too. I feel trapped at home with the last few days’ weather.

Ice Power Lines (Please don't snap!)

Ice Power Lines (Please don’t snap!)

Coated Tree Limb

Coated Tree Limb

Merivale Road

Merivale Road

Ice, Baby, Ice

Ice, Baby, Ice

Icy Flower

Icy Flower

...And Leaves

…And Leaves

Stop! (Ice)

Stop! (Ice)

Iced Sign

Iced Sign

Icicles

Ici­cles

Frozen Mailboxes

Frozen Mail­boxes

Some Cleaning Required In The Neighborhood

Some Clean­ing Required In The Neighborhood

Hopefully No Fire

Hope­fully No Fire

Benched

Benched

No Entrance

No Entrance

Related arti­cles:

  1. Freez­ing Rain
  2. Kens­ing­ton Mar­ket In The Spring
  3. A Cold Sunset
  4. Fall Rhap­sody
  5. And… Win­ter Is Here

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