With the ongoing snow storm here in the northeast, I’ve been monitoring the weather for both New Jersey, where I am, and for the area of Pennsylvania where the other house is. PA is now seeing “Ice Accretion” warnings from National Weather Service.
As this storm continues to move northeast, it will change from snow, to sleet, to freezing rain, and that mean ice will accumulate on everything. One-tenth of an inch of ice can actually increase the weight of a tree limb by thirty percent, which is why tree limbs (and sometimes whole trees) go down in such conditions.
If and when they go down, they sometimes take electric power lines with them.
I recall, I guess two or three years ago, a late winter storm up in PA, with heavy, wet snow, took down so many trees and power lines, that the PA house was without grid power for FIVE DAYS.
Thankfully, I was up there when things went…
