Living in Kansas for most of my life, I was used to the weather changing day-to-day. Now that we live in Iowa, things are not much different, just colder. In the past week we have had some pretty radical weather changes including the first snow day from school... on April 11. And that came three days after I went ahead and pulled all my flip-flops out of storage for the season and we were playing outside without even jackets on.
It started with an ice storm; lighting and thunder filling the sky while freezing rain covered the trees. Had it not been so devastating to our community and the beautiful trees that our city is known for, it would have been absolutely beautiful!!!
We were very fortunate not to lose any of our trees. It was an absolute miracle our birch tree survived and has pretty much bounced back to normal this week.
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| After the ice...not looking too good |
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| 4 inches of snow on top of the ice...hanging to the ground |
Many of our friends in town lost some of their beautiful trees and it has definitely changed the landscape of many neighborhoods.
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| Just one example |
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| This has been the scene for several days around here |
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| Limbs have been piled up in larger areas...not sure what they will do from here!
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Luckily the temperatures were at least nice enough for us to get out and enjoy the perfect snowman building snow that fell.
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| Our snowman is a K-State fan too! |
Then this week, all the snow had melted and we were once again able to start enjoying our spring weather.
Only to wake up to more rain/snow mixture yesterday with a winter weather advisory through Friday...will it ever end?!?!?
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