On July 1, 2011 a five-second downburst destroyed over 100 trees, giving me a new hobby in building-repair and landscaping. The downburst added another weather event to the typhoon and hurricane I had already experienced. Common to all three events was the corrugated steel roofing soaring and spinning like boomerangs.
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| We lost a lovely ash and a Kentucky tobacco tree by the deck. |
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| We were quite literally up to our eyeballs (eaves) in fallen trees. |
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| The 80-foot brick planter and redwood fence that protected us from the village. |
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Cleanup proceeds apace.
Got the last tree out of the river to ease swan traffic. |
