Terrace ducks major ice damage

The overnight ice storm of December 11-12 that left tens of thousands of Capital Region homes and businesses without power did a bit of damage at the Terrace, but it apparently was confined to trees and shrubs.

We lost several trees near the entrance up from Oakwood Avenue (thanks to Harvey Bailey and Tom Chichester for cleaning up tree debris). Mary McKeever found a downed tree on her deck. Nadeen Thompson lost a tree, Shirley Fischer reported some water damage. And, a quick trip around the Terrace showed that we have split branches and limbs here and there.

Speaking of Nadeen, she shot these photos for us of National Grid crews working in the trees behind the first "block" of Hyland Circle where sagging crossarms on several telephone poles needed bracing.