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Look at the center photos on this page: The angle of the power company crane imitates the arch of the downed willow. Man and machine are doing their best to remove the damage as trees have fallen all over our county this week. Mainly the snow and ice means delays, disruption and hard work. Michael Peppinger (bottom right photo), who is homeless, returns a favor to Under the Skin tattoo shop by shoveling their walk. Steve Eddy (bottom left) uses a blower to clear snow at Westside Elementary Wednesday on a no-school day to make a path for a truck bringing food supplies to the kitchen. The delivery? Frozen foods. In this historic and destructive storm, many people lost power, saw damage to cars, houses and fences, and lost trees that gave shade in the summer and beauty all year long. Some people lost their homes. Driveways were blocked, homes darkened, working hours lost. The storm has surely caused pain and suffering for many of us. Yet we see beauty in the crushing crystal: an acorn inside a Please see STORM, Page B10
SCENES OF MAYHEM wrought by ice and snow (clockwise from top): Hundreds of fir and other trees fell along Dee Highway, closing the road for several days; an ice-encased acorn; Bobby Green of Columbia Tree Service frees phone lines from a fallen willow; at Frankton and Belmont a willow explosion; a stately oak limb blocks the handicapped parking at Parkhurst House; a Columbia Street fence takes a beating; Michael Peppinger shoveling snow at Ink-Spot Tattoo; Steve Eddy clearing a path at WestSide Elementary; a State Street home with a near miss; apples drenched in ice; Collin Godkin taking a photo of his Sherman Street shed crushed with a car inside by an oak; an unlucky car at Ninth Street and Sherman also crushed by a tree limb; Pacific Power crews repairing lines on Methodist Road; Officer Aaron Mason responding to a tree across Serpentine Road and a Dee Highway sign crushed by a fallen tree.
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STORM
Continued from Page B1 frozen bubble, natures frozen sculpture encasing thorns in what look like musical notes; red Oak Grove apples made more vibrant by icicles. Harsh winters effects recall the tales of Narnia and Snow White and even Ice Age with its prehistoric acorn-crazy rodent Skrat. The past weeks weather both transformed and transfixed: We are less likely in rain or wind or heat to notice the graceful shape of a faucet handle or the rich brick of an old home on State Street. In this kind of weather you notice for the first time the misspelling of a road sign (page B1 its Residents). When the shed is standing you walk right by, but when its toppled, you notice the rich grain in the wood siding. When winter hits, you notice that a crane is shaped like a willow tree. Kirby Neumann-Rea
MORE SCENES of destruction from last weeks snow and ice storms yield many impressive sights. While some were hard at work clearing out driveways from snow, fallen branches, trees and debris, others stayed inside and waited out the hazardous conditions. Crews have been working overtime since last week to clean up the mess, mainly responding to hundreds of calls of downed trees, branches and power lines.