Perfect Video Shows Beauty, Treachery Of Recent Vermont Snowstorm

A row of what had been eight foot tall cedar trees
on the left side of this photo was smushed down to
three feet tall by the heavy, wet snow in
my St. Albans, Vermont yard last week.  

Hat tip to Shay Totten for alerting us to this video that shows the start of one person's beautiful but tricky commute to work to Green Mountain College in the southwestern Vermont town of Poultney

You can see why so many people had no power when much of Vermont got a foot or more of heavy wet snow and ice.

Look at all the trees and branches that came down in the video, below.  Power was out for a week or more in some areas.

Yesterday, a few more people lost power. A mini-thaw had set in. The snow is finally slipping off the trees.

As some branches snap back into position, at least sort of, they break through power lines, too.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is also in Vermont this week, trying to determine whether any parts of the state should be declared a disaster area due to the snow, the tree damage, the power line damage, and the arduous effort it took to clear roads of a foot or more of heavy wet snow, ice, and lots of fallen trees and branches.

Snow returned to Vermont this morning, but accumulations are fairly light. The roads are a bit tricky, but I doubt this new snow will cause many more power failures.

Even if it was destructive, last week's big snow was certainly one of the prettiest storms I've seen in awhile, too.

Here's the video by Philip Ackerman-Leist: