It started snowing the week of December 15th and continued on through Christmas. It did warm up briefly enough to start melting but then the temperature dropped down again below freezing, and everything turned to ice. This caused a LOT of tree limbs to start falling, leading to down power lines throughout Colton and a loss of power to the Elwood area for 2 1/2 days. Luckily, Brad was ready (and even anxious) to get the backup generator set up – and the fire department had nearly a month’s worth of calls in one week! In one day, Brad and Jodi went on a house fire call in Estacada, down power lines on Bauer Road, a chimney fire on the far side of Colton, and more power lines down on both Shibley and Elwood (blocking both our routes out to the highway). JB Ranch had quite a few branches down around the property, and a few fences needing to be fixed.
