The only negative part of the storm was that this area of the South is not prepared for events like this. 40,000 people were out of power for 1-4 days. One of my ALS families was out of power for 3 days and their house doesn't have a fireplace which did not bode well in 20-30 degree weather. They ended up coming to school and then going to friends' houses to stay warm. We only lost power for about 5 hours which wasn't bad at all.
The other major problem was that the snow brought down TONS of trees. There were trees and limbs snapping everywhere. We sat on our porch and listened to the eerie sounds of trees and limbs crashing throughout the neighborhood. We lost a huge limb from our deck tree and had to go out every couple of hours to hit our trees with my hockey stick and a broom (of course my stick ended up breaking) to avoid their collapse. It was crazy to see our trees flat on the ground from the heavy snow. We managed to save all of our fruit trees by doing this, but lost some little trees in the side yard. Matt and Jenny's house had 5 trees go down including a pine that came up by the rootball which then shaved off half of their magnolia tree. Over by Erin and Jeff's house there were two huge pecan trees that also came up by the rootball, one of which demolished a car parked in a driveway and the other one fell on a car and house, but did little damage.
