But if you have extreme heat, extreme drought in place, maybe a freeze or a snowstorm or a strong wind, certainly that can do damage, a reason for you not being able to see them in peak foliage.
But when a snowstorm hit last week after the six-week period had passed, the sheriff's office said it was sick of a rodent masquerading as a meteorologist.
It's considered the most dangerous state for these disasters and most of them happen during snowstorms or right afterward according to the National Weather Service.
There will already likely be at least four to six inches of snow on the ground from the previous snowstorm that will be moving through the couple of days before.
When you think of intense snowstorms, you think of terms like lake effect, snow and blizzards, however there's another type that is equally as dangerous, snow squalls.