Bent Birches - or, Why I Was Not At School
by Martin Summer, Class of 2011 - 26 Jan 2009

It was a dark and stormy night. Rain rattled the house all night long, but when I woke up and looked out the window, the grass was green and the sun was shining. It was only when I looked at the roof of the greenhouse that I realized everything in sight was covered in a thick layer of ice.

As my dad and I walked down the road from our house, approximately every thirty seconds I heard a sound like a gun shot, as a large tree limb was encased in too much ice and broke off. The next day the power and the telephone line was knocked out. My driveway had about forty birch trees bent over with the weight of the ice.

Five days later we still had no telephone or electric power, but the ice had melted and the trees on our driveway had slowly bent back almost to their original form.

Strangest of all was crossing from Columbia County into Berkshire County, where the ice storm had not left the tiniest mark! All around my house, for many days, the whole world seemed dark, quiet, and still. But back at our high school everything was completely normal.

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