The birds didn’t have a chance and were frozen solid in mid-flight. Of course, the’re plastic lawn flamingos and can’t fly very well to begin with so I guess they were doomed from the start.
Many of the trees were in the early stages of dropping leaves and were torn limb from limb by the heavy wet snow fall. Irene should have taken care of most of the weak limbs but it just goes to show the power of snow shouldn’t be underestimated.