The Recklessness of Storms

Remember that storm I told you about a couple of days ago? The one with the rap sheet a mile long? Here’s some evidence of its delinquency at my mom’s house.

This is big ash tree from the neighbor’s yard. I think a combination of the power company and some tree service did the cutting here:

A closer view of the turf displacement around the base:

See below the fold for one more…

A view from the neighbor’s yard to my mom’s. It’s kind of hard to see, but all those branches in the upper right corner of the picture are large branches left hanging off the garage roof by the power/phone companies. The storm also took down some branches from a nice old Crimson King maple in the backyard; not so nicely shaped anymore.

Can you see the powerline not far above the trunk? It’s a temporary line. The tree took out the old lines and created dancing, sparking lines in the yard, with blue electric fire causing some burn marks on some branches and the ground. I found a peculiar spot where I think the dirt must have fused together to create a hard spot.

I didn’t take the time to link to larger versions of these pictures, but these 600×450 pics are free for you to use under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

Related:The “History” of Storms