Do Tell: Lingering Damage

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With epic snowfall comes epic snowfall wreckage. This month’s question is: What damage caused by this winter’s snow did you, or will you, repair?


BRIAN ROBINSON, Glenshire
Sushi chef

Will have to cut down half an apple tree which lost half its branches, fix the deck rails that are starting to collapse, probably patch driveway cracks from frost heaves.

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MICHAELA HAFFORD, Truckee
Jack-ette of all trades

A crack that started pretty small in my partner’s car has since expanded to something much larger from a snowplow kicking up a rock.

CONNIE MITCHELL AND LOUIE GOMEZ, Kings Beach
Tahoe homies

Collapsing roof is cracking bedroom sheetrock, downstairs office has a leak through the window, lilacs and Japanese maples and 20-year-old apple tree were devastated, woodshed collapsed.

LAUREN BOBOWSKI and LILAH SALM, Carnelian Bay
Local jewelry maker (Lala Jewelry)

We had an ice dam that, immediately when we noticed the water pouring in through our windowsill, we drilled a hole in the windowpane and it all came out. The sun came out that day and we cleared the snow from our metal roof, and it miraculously fixed itself with minimal damage.

DR. LARA MAY, Truckee
Functional medicine practitioner

My greenhouse got destroyed, it caved in.

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  • Ted Coakley III

    Lived: OH-TX-OK-CA-NY-CA Visited (work and/or non-work): many states all over the U.S., MX, Canada, Central & South America, Asia & Europe. High on my wish list is Ireland, all over Africa, New Zealand, Russia, Norway, China, Iran, Bhutan, Ecuador, Iceland, Bali, Baja .... well, okay, any/everywhere would be great to visit. Worked: photo, film/video, manual labor, high finance, menial, profound. Someone recently asked me, "You like to talk to people that others don't like to talk to?" I answered that I do like doing that, as much as talking to anyone else, but it's not "a thing" for me that I'm especially into. A day or two later, it struck me why I was asked that - because a lot of people are not like that ... not like me in that way. I'm glad I'm not like others in that way. ¡All for fun and fun for all!

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