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Close call?: ice storm causes possible power outages around St. Lawrence University

Posted by Vincent Deramo,
North Country explorer from Bridgeport, Connecticut
January 26, 2014

This suffered ice storm damage on 19-20 Dec 2013, and had a substantially large branch snap in half. Beyond the tree however, is one of the campus' and towns major power line, which would have been taken down had the ice piled up more so on the other side of the tree. The image highlights trees that are dangerously close to the power lines and with multiple ice/snow storms northen New York recieves, it's only a matter of time until a line gets broken.