Last week we broke, or nearly broke, all-time high temperature records. It was almost 70˚ more than once. This is mid-November, folks -- it just ain't right. Sometime in the middle of Friday night, all that changed.
Our driveway, Saturday morning, 11 a.m., when I came home from a 9 a.m. meeting:
That was pretty much where I left the car because this (below) is what was ahead of the car (and behind the photographer):
That tree fell sometime last summer but was hung up -- high up -- on other trees. The snow today was so wet and heavy that it brought that tree nearly all the way down.
Coincidentally, it fell in the only place along that stretch of driveway where it DIDN'T land on a vehicle.
Wow -- on a number of counts. Just wow.
Posted by: Vicki | 14 November 2010 at 10:17 AM
Yikes!
Posted by: Cindy G | 14 November 2010 at 10:22 AM
You're so lucky! We're still waiting for our first big dump of snow.
Posted by: Heather | 14 November 2010 at 10:23 AM
Glad the tree didn't hit anyone or anything.
Posted by: Chris | 14 November 2010 at 10:40 AM
We lost a big branch on the pine tree where the red tails nest. It came down as I was standing at the window a few feet away. Scared me.
Posted by: Mary Lou | 14 November 2010 at 11:20 AM
Pretty snow! :D Goodness, that is a lot. o.O
I'm so glad the limb missed everything it could potential dent!
Posted by: Angie | 14 November 2010 at 11:28 AM
Whoa...that's really all I can say.
Posted by: Susan | 14 November 2010 at 12:07 PM
The worst thing at our house was the hip-high pile of concrete slush that the snowplow left at the end of our driveway. Snowblower and I did NOT like it.
Posted by: Guinifer | 14 November 2010 at 02:14 PM
I thought of you when I saw that news. You're the only one in Minnesota that I know. you are in Minnesota aren't you?
Posted by: sophanne | 14 November 2010 at 03:49 PM
Beautiful pixs.
Posted by: Window Watcher | 14 November 2010 at 04:18 PM
I heard tell you guys were getting quite the weather event. I'm not quite sure I'm ready for that yet, though. Maybe in another month. And only if it means I get a snow day...
Posted by: Sheepish Annie | 14 November 2010 at 05:18 PM
Yikes! But I agree, 70 degrees (even 55 degrees) in November in these northern states just is not right...
Posted by: lisa | 14 November 2010 at 06:21 PM
Oh, my. Just oh, my.
We've had spitting snow, but nothing real. (I should bite my tongue - I may have called it down on us...)
Posted by: gayle | 14 November 2010 at 09:48 PM
Well, um, good news? Or at least bad with a silver lining?
Happy winter!
Posted by: Big Alice | 15 November 2010 at 12:20 PM
Holy Crap!
Posted by: Cookie | 15 November 2010 at 12:42 PM
Wow. It's so beautiful!
Posted by: elizabeth | 15 November 2010 at 05:12 PM
Yikes! That's, uhm, a startling (and lucky) start to the winter season. May the rest be easy.
Posted by: Bullwinkle | 15 November 2010 at 06:43 PM
Wow. Living where I do, I often forget about weather. How does one get a fallen tree removed from the driveway?
Posted by: Yarnhog (Suzanne) | 17 November 2010 at 09:12 AM
Look how pretty! Glad it missed the cars.
Posted by: soxanne | 17 November 2010 at 11:54 AM