No entry, no exit

The thick ice was just too much for this poor tree to take.

The tree fell sometime in the middle of the night. Chuck had already been out to the store and when he came back he parked in a different spot, behind the cars. His truck is usually parked closer to the house, and the part of the tree that is in the bottom right corner of that frame would have landed right on top of the truck.

Our driveway was obviously completely blocked, so when Chuck left for work he drove out our back gate instead. After he was gone I looked out the window and saw a huge limb had fallen across the truck tracks in the snow.

So far those are the only trees we've found that have fallen, though I think there could be more in the forested area in front of the house. I kept hearing crackle sounds and thuds. Some of it was just heavy snow and ice falling from the huge fir boughs.

That tree is all cut up into fire wood now. It turned into a two-day job.