Tag: ice storm

Scarborough Ice Storm and Mochi

December 28, 2013
Rainwater

A few of days after Christmas, Angela, Claudia and I headed into Scarborough to make mochi with G-ma and G-pa.  Mom and Dad were without power for almost 63 hours after the ice storm. They lost a big branch off of their birch tree in the front.

Not everyone had power on their street, while we were there, a couple of Toronto Hydro trucks pulled up across the street and were hooking a line back up.

Angela, Claudia and Alex making the mochi patties.

Claudia wearing her hairnet.

It was a challenge to see who could make the perfect mochi.

Mom cutting the mochi.

Ice Storm 2013: The Day After

December 23, 2013
Rainwater

Angela and Claudia were out in the backyard last night. Here they are wearing their ice hats.

Claudia, Angela and I went out for a drive this morning to see how things were around the neighbourhood. I put the GoPro on the windshield. Here are a few minutes of our 17 minute drive.

The sun came out this afternoon, it made for some nice scenery with the ice covered trees.

A lot more pleasant than yesterdays view looking down Rainwater Drive.

One of the trees in our backyard.

The maple tree that I grew from a twig is still doing well.

We turned our house into a warming centre. Steve and the boys came over this afternoon as they have been without power for a couple of days. Mom and Dad and Carolyn are also coming over for dinner as they have been without since Saturday night.

Ice Storm 2013 Clean-up

December 22, 2013
Rainwater

Later in the day we headed back out once the freezing drizzle stopped to survey the damage and clean up. Looking west along Rainwater Drive, this end of the street did pretty good.

The tree next door, Lars was starting to clean it up.

Looking down to the east, that end of the street was hit the hardest out of the sub-division.

Lars trying to pull down one of the broken branches, unfortunately it brought down one of the other branches.

Lars cutting one of the broken branches off.

Neighbours helping neighbours.

This is the tree that broke while we were out earlier.

This is the other end of Rainwater Drive, we counted about 5-6 boulevard trees that will probably be cut down by the city.

This blow up snowman took some collateral damage.

A close-up of Frosty.

Angela breaking ice of the small maple.

Ice on the pine tree out front.

This father and son were surveying the damage with their hard hats on.

Lars trying to get more of the ice off, but getting most of it down his back.

Everyone standing clear of Lars and his ice wielding stick.

A big pile of ice on the road.

More of the plants and bushes covered in ice.

Ice Storm 2013

December 22, 2013
Rainwater

What did you wake up to this morning? We headed out to church for 8:00 and on our way home we took a drive around the neighbourhood. When we turned down our street, we discovered it was blocked with fallen trees, after turning around and coming in the other way we went for a walk to see the damage. Our neighbour Lars lost a couple of branches.

Looking back to our house.

Around the corner from us we came across the fallen trees.

This tree in front of friends fell over and is totally blocking their driveway.

Another tree blocking the road.

Angela and Claudia in front of the destruction.

As I took this picture, we heard a loud crack…

…and turned around to see the one side of this tree go down…followed by another loud crack…

…only to see the other side go down in front of us.

That is the same tree that is on the right in this picture that I took as we were walking down earlier. You can just see Chloe by the tree, probably going to the washroom.

The ice made for some nice photos.

 

The ice coated trees in front of our house.

I moved our cars right up to the house just in case our tree decides to come down.

 

I guess we should heed the Peel Regional Police Twitter feed.