Day 3.056: Branch/line disaster avoided

No, this is not a storyline for a story featuring Thomas the Tank Engine (or Thomas the Train as he is often known over here). Rather, I am musing on why we did not have a power-outage as a result of a large branch that fell during the heavy wet snow during the week before last.

How about I try to explain with an illustration?

It couldn't have ended up more under the power line if it had been placed there intentionally.

In case the magnitude of the event is not obvious, here's another lousy photo completely lacking any sense of scale to compound the problem:

It's about 20 feet long.

Of course, if it had indeed snagged our power line on the way down, that would have been inconvenient, had it fallen elsewhere or at a different time it might have been much worse.

I managed to drag it out to the roadside on the off-chance that it will be considered fair-game for the Spring clean-up collection.  If not, I will have to start chopping it up, at which point it may start to look like useful firewood - which will necessitate further chopping... I'm getting blisters and back-ache just thinking about it (unless it's from the dragging).