PRESS PHOTOS BY JIM MARSH Salisbury residents awake to a snowscape of heavy wet snow clinging to trees and bushes Feb. 13. While it provided Lehigh Valley residents with a short interval of nature's beauty, it came at a price to many who had to face shoveling out vehicles, cleaning up downed branches and even power outages for some.

As James Messina, of the 1700 block of Victoria Circle, is admiring the beauty of the Feb. 13 snow falling in his backyard, a loud, sharp crack broke the spell. The heavy wet snow uprooted and toppled a large pine on his property, leaving Messina pondering when and how to clear the mess that resulted.