Ice storm ...Wow

[hoghead]

Ice storm passed through this area, look at the trees!

 

[hoghead]

and another

 

[Thomas]

Thats going to make for a lot of extra spring clean up.
Us New Englanders still rememeber the ice storm of 98,and damage from that storm still shows. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

 

[hoghead]

Does anyone think these trees will regain their shape?

 

[cowboydoc]

We've had a few like that the last few years hoghead and if they don't break most of them came out of it ok. The worst around here is when they break and take out phone lines. The last one we had there were two probably 150 year old oaks that came down. They were on the side of a hill and took out half the hill with them!

 

[Thomas]

It doesn't look good for those trees,but the soft wood might bounce back w/some pruning in years.
Once this nasty heavy freezing rain passes we shall be able to compare photos of tree damage..its almost like a mirror up here. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

 

[MikePA]

When this has happened to my trees, they've come back. However, arbor vitaes are another story. More often than not, I've ended up having to cut the drooping limbs off in the spring. The limbs don't die, but they do not spring back either.

 

[RobS]

Arbor vitaes are notorious for splitting under snow/ice loads. It's common to tie the trunks together as they grow. We had similar ice build up yesterday on everything, but it all melted away overnight. Most trees will come right back as long as the branches don't actually break /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[cedarranch]

I remember 98. I spent Christmas Day with the chainsaw cutting downed trees out of my driveway. about 10 hours worth of work. I have two cedars in the front yard that the tops were kissing their roots. I thought I had lost them but they held on. This pic shows one of them from November 2001.

 

[jimmoore]

Doug, thats the way it was here in Arkansas last year about this time!