Thursday, February 13, 2014

2nd Winter Storm: Assessing the Damage

The storm has passed.  It didn't do any damage to our home directly.


End of the Road
That being said, Pawleys  Plantation is facing a major cleanup project  There are trees  and branches down all over the plantation.  Trying to get in and out is like running an obstacle course of broken limbs and ice laden tree branches bending down to windshield height under their loads.  
Jean's Driveway

A large number of large  branches  came down off of the pine tree behind our neighbors home
 
Susla's backyard
Susla / D'Amor's Backyard



Closer view looking east at D'Amores and Suslas lots

There is a lot of downed the oak and cypress behind our home.  
Oaks down behind our home
In addition there are still a some large broken  trees  in the woods behind us that have propped themselves against other trees.  None are posing and direct threat, but they'll have to be removed or their weight may topple the trees they are leaning against..

Toppled holly Tree in Janet's Front yard
Crews were out this morning from K A Diehl assessing the damage, but everything is still a bit too ice laden to risk using chain saws.  The most anyone can do right now is move the branches out of the road or walkways so no one gets hurt trying to pass through it.   That's pretty much what everyone is doing as you can see from the two photos below
 
The intersection of Tanglewood and Twelve Oaks

These fallen  branches were blocking the plantations roadways yesterday,  by noon today they had been pushed off of the road.
Broken oak branches near clubhouse
 The weather forecast is for a warming trend.  Hopefully the ice will be melted by tomorrow and we can get on with the clean up.

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