Hope the man with the Pine Forest crop had insurance. What terrible luck!
With so many areas in the nation in the grip of these multiple storms, and the North getting so much snow, that is not surprising, Aqua.
It's a Big Deal to National News Reporters that Federal workers in D.C. were sent home today because of it, and the cold might interfere with the NH voting - what else is new?!
North and Northeast of this area, though, listening to the calls of the locals to the radio station this morning, it was, and is, a nightmare. With power off in several small towns (as well as in areas of Augusta), businesses/factories were unable to operate, and workers were prevented by the downed trees from getting anywhere anyway, as well as schools, etc., closed.
Going just by what I personally experienced, I can only imagine how the brunt of the storm sounded when it dropped so many pine trees in a short period of time, felling them quickly like so many toothpicks.
As you know, pines have a very shallow root base, and are easily uprooted.
(I have no pines here, by the way.)
The storm came up from the direction of Alabama, through Augusta and on Northeast, affecting a line down through Orangeburg, SC, too.
You are well above all of that, and dansangel and .45MAN in Atlanta also were not affected.