weather update

[hudebnik]

Now that there's some daylight, I walked around the neighborhood taking some better pictures. All of these are within three blocks of our house.


[Edit 9:15 AM: added a few more that didn't come out the first time I took them.]

from our front door

also from our front door

also also from our front door

the sidewalk in front of our house

the base of the tree that is now in our front yard

the same, closer up

another tree across the street that only lost a limb

the house three doors down

the cross street, taken from about thirty feet from our front door

the same, seen from the other direction

an intersection two blocks away

the same, from the other side

a garage two blocks from our house

a house two blocks away

the base of the same tree, which took a couple of limbs off another large tree

where those limbs landed

ditto (there's a motorcycle and a car in there)

a near miss

two blocks away in a different direction

the same, including the house we almost bought in 2001

Note that our neighborhood has a lot of big trees, and there seems no rhyme or reason to which ones came down and which still look perfectly fine.

Comments

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness! I'm so glad that you and yours are safe and sound.

I had no idea that your neighborhood was so verdant! I mean, having visited only Manhattan (that's where the Empire State Building is, right?), my mental image is that's how all of the city looks.

[hudebnik.livejournal.com]

Did you ever watch "All in the Family"? That's roughly the kind of residential neighborhood we're in, although less blue-collar than Archie Bunker's neighborhood. In fact, if you remember the layout of the Bunkers' house, flip it left for right in a mirror, and enclose the porch, you've got our house. Some of the larger houses in the neighborhood are Victorians rather than Archies.

Corrections Ya Us

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

Actually, there are only three "Archie Bunkers" on our street (there was an oddly-shaped trapezoidal lot that apparently lay fallow until the 1910s, when somebody subdivided it and put three one-room-wide "Colonial" houses--the aforementioned Archie Bunkers--on it); the rest are a mixture of Queen Anne [Victorian], Tudor, and [large] Colonial.