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For some perspective to the distance to the current point where the fallen
trees are cut back to, which is where the clean up work will continue, the following photo shows where Teddy was sitting in the above photos:
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Previous storm clean up progress location (August 8, 2020):
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Previous storm clean up progress location (August 5, 2020):
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I am joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for this week's T Stands For challenge found here.
This is my summation of the past week:
Teddy will be serving double duty as my main image plus as my "T-Day
ticket" for my T-Day posts.
On Tuesday afternoon, August 4, 2020, Tropical Storm Isaias toppled five trees on my property, in a domino effect, but fortunately they didn't hit anything. I lost electricity, cellular service, and internet service. I am grateful that those utilities were restored after several days. (Note: I want to apologize to the T-Gang participants who I was unable to visit last week, due to the loss of power and internet.)
An EF1 tornado (which started as a waterspout before making landfall) struck Westport, Connecticut at about 1:40pm that day. A short time later, there was a Tornado Warning just west of where I was. During that time, the winds became very scary where I was, and awhile later, the five trees fell. (I've experienced Tropical Storms, Hurricanes, and Nor'easters, but the winds during Isaias were the scariest I've ever gone through.)
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(Additional photos can be seen
here.)
As of Monday, August 10, 2020, great progress has been made in storm clean up efforts so far,
although it is very strenuous, and all five
trees require more cutting. (Note: I might leave a generic comment for everyone this week, because I'm very sore after each day's clean up efforts. Even the effort to make this scheduled T-Day post has been arduous.)
In the first photo of Teddy in this post, three of the five toppled trees can be seen. Tree 1 (tree on right, leaning against a still standing tree) was uprooted by the force of the wind, as seen by its exposed root ball in the far background. Tree 2 (center tree, which Teddy is sitting on) snapped at its base due to the weight of Tree 1 on it. Tree 3 (Pine Tree, tree on left) was uprooted by the weight of Tree 1 and Tree 2 hitting it, as seen by its exposed root ball in the background (just above Teddy's head).
Since June, it has been very hot and mostly dry where I am in southwest Connecticut. And Connecticut still has D0 and D1 drought conditions. (United States Drought Monitor - Connecticut) Usually after a Tropical Storm goes through, cooler air is ushered in, if only even for a few days. That was not the case with Isaias. The heat continued with no let up. Each day has been about 90 F (32.2 C) with 85% to 95% humidity, making the daily storm clean up efforts dehydrating and draining, besides being strenuous.
Teddy claims he has been doing all of the storm clean up work each day, while I've been sitting inside with the fans running (I don't have air conditioning), eating bon bons. I asked Teddy if that were true, why is it I was the one taking a "slushie shower" after physical exertions each day, when we had no electricity. If you're wondering what a "slushie shower" is, a slushie drink contains ice crystals. Now imagine someone continuously throwing those ice crystals at you, at 100 mph (160.93 kph). That's how my water felt, in the shower, with no electricity to be able to heat it. Despite the water coming out as liquid, it felt like a bunch of pins and needles, like I was being shot with fine ice crystals. One would think, with how hot it was outside, the water in the pipes in the ground couldn't get that cold, yet it did and was. Teddy had no reply to my question, other than to say he likes slushies.
