I'm in Peril!!

Check out our side yard! The wires in the snow are cable, internet, and phone, so far cable and internet are still working. The wire in the left of the picture weighed down with snow is our power.

All of these pine branches are weighted down with snow and resting on the wire. I feel like it's only a matter of time before we go dark, :( I sent my hubby out (in his bathrobe) to swing a stick around and knock the snow off the branches. He said, 'Don't take a picture of me!' I'm so obedient. We couldn't reach the upper branches which I'm afraid will break and come down on the wires, so we got the long pole for brushing the pool. I got a lot of frustrations out by whacking branches with that thing. The wire is safe for now but our lights occasionally flicker so who knows what's happening further down.
This is out front. BIG branches have broken off this pine and landed on the fence and across the drive.

I went out and freed up some of the branches that haven't broken. I hate to admit it was kinda fun. I said "I'll save ya!" and shook and shook and got practically buried in snow. It's so deep you can just sit and feel like you're in a chair. I have awesome polar fleece snow pants that I put on over my jeans and stay warm and dry. I do think it's time to get the snowshoes out of the basement though. We put our cars at the end of the driveway last night and it will be a major journey getting down there tomorrow to start shoveling. I wish I didn't have to work on Monday morning. I sneezed earlier! Maybe I'm coming down with something, lol!
If we lose our power, we also lose water. That is the MAJOR inconvenience and we are filling buckets with water for toilet flushing. I ran the dishwasher and we all got our showers in (I even shaved my legs!) Wish us luck. If I'm still in business later I will post a 'giveaway update'. I'm going to go get some citrus blocks ready so I will at least have handwork. Adios!