I've been watching this since it first showed up on the weather last week...at the beginning it didn't look too bad, but each subsequent day, it seemed like it got alittle stronger/worse.
I was camping over the weekend, when I got home yesterday the area was smoky & it was ashing(is that actually a word?) just a bit. Seeing the latest forecast, looks like a good chunk of today will be spent out in the yard...going to look through the garden/veggies, protect the plants with lots of unripe that I want to save, strip everything where the plant doesn't have many (then let them ripen in the basement).
Then I have a small fishpond and in it are guppies (small semi-tropical fish), not sure what I'm going to do yet - try to cover/protect it, or bring the fish back inside to an aquarium (something I'd be doing later this month anyway, but its a time-consuming task)
As for the trees...I lost one in a derecho this spring, another met its fate via chainsaw(had bugs anyway), I guess if the snow takes down any others, that's even more firewood (hopefully anything that falls avoids any house/fence/etc damage)
The videocamera is charged & ready just incase I wish to make a 'first snow of the season' vid...
Attached is latest forecast: