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You're really getting a blizzard there, aren't you? What fun!!

You really got plastered, didn't you?!!Wow!

Pardon my ignorance, but is a "log store" the same as what we call a wood shed? Or something else?

Peter, is that a PALM TREE I see on the far left side of this photo??!!!!!

Thanks for the info, Peter. What an amazing plant!! I did a bunch of research on Cordyline Australis and discovered (among lots of other great articles online) this bit from Wikipedia:
"It is also widely planted in western Europe and the Northwest coast of the United States. It is particularly popular in Britain, where it is thought to resemble a palm tree. Cabbage trees can grow well as far north as western coast of Scotland, in places where the Gulf Stream tempers the climate, including the village of Plockton. It is more common in Southern England, and in Ireland. It is locally named Cornish palm, Dracaena palm, Manx palm, or Torquay/Torbay palm in the British Isles. The last name is due to its extensive use in Torbay, it being the official symbol of that area, used in tourist posters promoting South Devon as the English Riviera. It also grows in Spain, Italy and Japan. Even though the natural distribution of C. australis ranges from a subtropical to a mid-latitude , and despite its ultimately tropical origins, it also grows at about five degrees from the Arctic Circle in Masfjorden, Norway, latitude 61 degrees N, in a microclimate protected from arctic winds and moderated by the Gulf Stream."
WOW!! :-)