I have been praying for the Godzilla El Nino the experts have been predicting. We've been in a drought for four years, and our water supplies are running low and it's scary. We also had a late fall. The fall color here was really nice. Then we had an early snow storm. I measured from 3 to 6 inches in our yard. We've had far more snow before, but usually the trees have lost their leaves. Not so this time. Thus, arboricide. Only one of our trees suffered damage, but our next door neighbor's trees lost limbs that are themselves the size of small trees, and the neighbor two doors down lost an entire tree. And this happened all over town.