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In our mid-50's community, the trees that came through this snowfall event the best (with the least amount of damage) were the fruit and nut trees (apple, pear, plum and burr oaks). Next up were the tower poplars/columnar aspens and green ash followed closely by the elms. Worst hit were the mountain ash, regular poplars, manitoba maples, maydays and willows. Can't comment on any of the birch varieties as there just aren't that many of them in our community.

Personally, in our yard we have 2 - 60 year old city owned green ashes of which one took a little bit of damage and the other escaped unscathed. Our 60+ year old apple came through with no damage and our young 8 year old elm came through fine. I was out with a 25' extend-a-pole trying to get the snow off of our deciduous trees and that's probably what saved them from any severe damage - my neighbors weren't so lucky with one neighbor having a branch on their elm come down that was over 10 inches in diameter. Other neighbors saw incredible damage to their manitoba maples, green ashes and maydays - some of the trees came down int heir entirety or will have to be taken down.