Snow falls, trees fall

I woke up this morning to the snow quickly melting under blue skies and Dad bundled up in his scarf, hat, boots and beanie. At first I thought he was playing in the snow, taking in as much of it as he could before it melted but then I realized this is Dad... He was surveying the damage.

In our backyard we had two 40-foot trees in our yard that nicely blocked the view of the house behind us. Now we have one 40-foot tree and one 25-foot tree. Some huge top branches completely broke off and the tree looks like it's going to have to have a few more cut off the very top. One little tree that I thought was broken (it cracked as I was brushing snow off of it) was able to be propped up on its stick again.
Schools around the valley are canceled but all in all it looks like it's going to be a normal winter Vegas day- chilly but with blue skies and sunny- other than rapidly melting snow.
Snowfall on The Strip was 3 inches, breaking the previous 1967 record of 2. The overall record for Las Vegas snow was 7.8 which we did not break. The paper states that yesterday was the 8th largest snowfall on record for the area. Some places of Henderson got up to 8 inches (we got just about 4 and a half all in all).
If this only happens every 30 years or so I'm happy I was around to see it! It was a great send-off since this is my last winter in Vegas before I move in April!