The trees in the nearby forest snapped and crackled with the cold.

Residents described hearing cracking sounds like gun battles in the woods as trees snapped.

A short drive away, roughly half the pine trees in one neighborhood snapped like matchsticks.

There are also a few felled trees and others with their tops snapped.

With the ice buildup, trees have been snapping like firecrackers out there.

Six months later, another tree simply snapped, a chunk crashing to the ground in the middle of the day.

The second tree snapped in half ten feet off the ground.

Such a tree eventually snaps, and its shattered branches come crashing down.

The trees hissed and snapped as she pulled deeper into the shadow of their branches.

When he did so the tree snapped and sent the boy into the rushing snow.