View out the side window of the house.

This branch is actually large enough to have done major damage had it landed on our roof. Luckily it fell straight down.

electric box has been rather abruptly pulled from the house.

poor evergreen - it's looked like this before... will it survive? and notice the wires on the ground.

Where these branches are is where we usually park the minivan. It's been in for repairs or these branches would have totalled it. Had to cut them with a chainsaw before we could move them.

Lots of stuff down in the front yard.

All over the yard.

That one managed to bury its bottom branches about 7 inches into the ground.

We were lucky - the broken part you see here had a HUGE branch (the equivalent to the ones you see on the other side - it's actually the branch in the second picture) that leaned toward the house. It fell straight down. If it had broken during a wind storm we would have had major roof damage.

Lots and lots of branches down.

The leaning trees (they are now history and the utility pole was placed upright earlier today). The wire you see on the ground in the front of the pic is our neighbor's phone wire.

Messy - but there is always traffic.

My husband was nearly finished clearing the biggest branches that needed chainsaw work. This is our neighbor's drive and she can't do this work herself.

Yes this pile of branches is pulling the wire down.

Some trees just snapped.

the box again. Poor evergreen is wilting under the weight of the ice.

Different view of the side yard.

More of the front.

It was a bit scary to see people working under those trees to cut off the lower branches - but later that day I drove under them...

Messy messy messy.

The poor trees, today they were standing up straighter after the ice melted off them.