As if power outages, slick roads and transit disruptions weren’t enough trouble, the weekend’s ice storm landed one Toronto woman with yet another headache: a parking ticket.

As the tree in front of Sarah Radcliffe’s home fell slowly fell apart limb by limb — one branch destroying part of her porch and falling dangerously close to her car — she began to fear the car would be the tree’s next victim and moved it to the street in front of her house at around 3:30 a.m. Sunday.

A few hours later, she and her husband woke to find a parking ticket on the car.

“It added insult to injury,” Radcliffe said. “I had no choice but to put that car on the road so I just thought, ‘How ridiculous.’”

Still, she said she understands that it’s possible the police simply wanted to keep the roads clear for salt trucks or had some other valid reason for presenting her with a ticket.

“The whole city’s falling apart but maybe, from a different point of view, that was part of trying to keep it all OK,” she said.

Radcliffe said though she hopes a court would understand her situation, she doesn’t have time to fight the ticket and said she will pay the $30 fine.

For now, her car remains on the road, safe from the crumbling tree.

On Sunday night, she said she was leaving a sign on her car with a simple message: “Please don’t give us a ticket.”

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