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

[ichseke.livejournal.com]

Holy cow! You do seem to have been downright lucky amid all this random destruction. Is there information yet about how (& when) it will all be cleared up? Yipes.

[hudebnik.livejournal.com]

Nice thing about living in a reasonably affluent, mostly-white neighborhood: the crews were here at 7:30 AM, and our street was clear by noon. Some other downed trees in the neighborhood were lower priority because they weren't blocking a street, but I think most of them were cleaned up by the end of yesterday.

It also helps that whatever hit us was very localized -- just within about five blocks of us -- so we weren't competing for tree-cutting resources with the rest of New York City.