Volume 7 , Issue 1

Alva's Ice Storm 2005...

"Alva took a pretty hard hit in an ice storm that began late Tuesday night and went on through Wednesday. Large limbs and even a few whole trees have been snapped off all over town and the city looks like a war zone. Naturally there were some power outages and our gas line froze up, but overall we're okay and so is the town. We were lucky and didn't get a whole lot of tree damage. But you can see from the attached pictures that there was a very heavy layer of ice on the trees. The ice layer was about a half inch thick on every branch and limb, plus there were icicles standing off of that as well, so the larger trees must have been carrying tons of additional weight. Some of the worst damage was on the Northwestern State University campus, where many of the large old American and lace-bark elms took hard hits. The large old tree near the street in front of the president's house was almost completely destroyed. Take care." -- Jim   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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