We lost one Maple in the 2011 freeze - it cracked and never recovered, but the cracks in our remaining one mostly healed back
I wonder if the cracking could be prevented by tapping for syrup before hand?
We had a winter storm a couple years back like that. The snow was so heavy it had most of the pine trees bending in ridiculous angles. Taking a walk with my pup was like hunting season. Snapes and pops the whole day. Lost three tall Douglas firs in my yard that day.
...spent a number of years in the Central New York region....many, many very cold winters up there; 18 degrees below zero for a solid week back in the mid- or late-1960s if I recall...would routinely hear the elm trees crack in the middle of the night....they are pretty much gone now, victims to a disease carried by the Dutch elm beetle or some such.....