Neighborhood Tour

I went on a brief tour of our neighborhood last night and captured a few pics of some of the aftermath of the Friday night storm before all the debris gets cleared away. See my last post for details on our experience last weekend. The very old and very large trees here combined with the 90mph (up from 75mph early reports!) meant a lot of tree damage. Just take a look for yourself below. It's hard to believe I took all these pics during a 5 minute drive through our neighborhood's main streets.

A house 2 doors down from us had this lovely pile of debris

Notice the white/green fire hydrant for scaling

This felled tree was about twice the length in total that you see here. I'm so grateful it didn't fall on top of that house.

Debris along a green belt in our neighborhood. Look closely and see the two broken trees. Also, the greenery along the curb is not a bunch of shrubs...it's all fallen debris from the damaged trees above it!

This tree in the green belt was completely uprooted. For scale, the root system you see there is higher than a compact car if one were parked beside it.