Nor'easter

After days of warm weather the Monday morning weather forecast started with a prediction of 1 to 3 inches of snow overnight. As the day went on the forecast changed to 3 to 5 inches of snow and then 6 to 8 inches. When we went to bed Monday night it was a light rain with a few snow flakes. At 3:00AM Tuesday our power went off and by daylight we had 7 to 8 inches of very wet snow.

This Nor'Easter had knocked out nearly half of the power in this area of the state. The information from our electric provider was this would be a multiple day outage. After starting our generator to run our freezers and well pump I headed to town to get more gasoline and found trees across the road.

The local wildlife appeared confused by this change in the weather.

Being a springtime weather event, by the afternoon the snow had started melting and the spring flowers became visible again.

By Wednesday our power was still off and the sound of home generators echoed through the neighborhood. By Wednesday afternoon most of the snow had melted and the township crew was busy opening roads. Our electrical power was restored at 7:00AM this morning (Thursday) but 35% of our service provider's customers, 6,600 homes were still without electrical service.