I’m sitting here listening to Bruce Springsteen sing about Santa Claus coming to town as I type this…
First official winter Nor’Easter hit last night, bringing snow to the area – before Halloween! The state of NJ declared an emergency, and the concert I was to record last night was cancelled (albeit 20 minutes before it was to start, meaning I still had been there for 6 hours of setup and soundcheck). Lots of trees down on my way home, so I suggested we go out for a walk to check the neighborhood. Naturally, we all had to get bundled up:
(from here on known as the purple starfish cosmonaut outfit) (sorry for the blurry photo, very low light + fussy baby…). Had some large-ish trees down, closing down streets.
Interesting to see the Halloween displays covered in snow and mush. (Click the photo for the big version so you can appreciate the detail of the setup.)
With most of the leaves still on trees and bushes, they were bearing a lot of weight and looking pretty sad.
This morning’s light gave us a better look at everything. Looks like we only had one big branch snap off the big pin oak in the front. The neighbor’s bushes to the left are about as half tall as they should be.
Here’s looking the other way down our street.
Here’s our patch of bamboo as seen from the train tracks. There’s still some standing, but most of it is bent over under the snow.
We’re still having large clumps of snow come off trees and hit the house, so it sounds like we’re being bombed. But otherwise we seem to have survived pretty well. Time will tell how the trees regroup. A nice practice for winter!