A March Storm

This weather is probably causing a lot of home owners problems today. There is a big branch of our Pine tree in the back ( can hardly see it in one of the pictures) that is falling to the ground. It is probably broken and we will probably have to saw it off. Its always the wrong branch that happens to also, right? LOL We have a window well that keeps filling with water coming from the neighbors yard... each house is higher than the next and we don't have a drain on this side of the house. Leo just went to Fleet Farm to get a fitting for a pipe he is going to use to drain the water out of the well with a pump. He was using a garden hose but the water is coming too fast so he will get a wider pipe to see how that works. The water is coming into the basement now ....oh boy. Good thing our basement isn't finished  with a family room or something. 
Our son Tom came over this morning right from work and said most of the roads are pretty good... ours is the worse he said but there is a lot of slush to plow through and once it went right over his windshield. He came with his uniform on and his badge.... funny but its the first time I have seen him in this uniform and he must have been a fireman for Green Bay for about 20 years already...before that he was in the Navy and before that the Army..... he is a good son.... one of 5 we have.
This was in my daily calendar: "Every man stamps his value on himself.... man is made great or small by his own will."
                                                               J.C.F.von Schiller

I finished shoveling the patio and then did the driveway too as it is supposed to freeze tonight and I don't like a slippery driveway. Leo spent a good part of the day with the pumping out of the window well.  Our sump pump is running downthe basement every minute or so yet. maybe it would be good if it did freeze