The Snowstorm on Bear Hill Road

By Martha Momaney

We have lived at our residence on Bear Hill Road in West Dummerston for 35-plus years and have never seen anything like this snowstorm. The power went out on Tuesday, 3/14, at 4:30 a.m. and stayed out until Saturday evening, 3/18, at 7:15 p.m. - five full days with no electricity. Thankfully, we have a woodstove and ran our generator three times a day. It was very surreal having hemlock trees crashing down around us. At some point in the late morning a tree fell on the utility pole across the road from us and snapped the top third of the pole off, taking the transformer with it. There were wires and a trunk line across our front lawn, in the brook, and up and down the road. The wires, including our landline, was ripped from the