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. Many in this area were not as lucky. Shortly before the trees fell, a Tornado Warning had been issued for a swath of Connecticut just west of where I live in southwest Connecticut.
Most of my utilities (electricity, cellular coverage, internet) went out on Tuesday afternoon. Wednesday evening, the electricity came back on. Friday afternoon, the cellular coverage came back on. Saturday evening, the internet came back on. The damage in this area due to fallen trees and branches was extensive, so I'm grateful for the restoration of my utilities. I've spent time each day, including on Tuesday, clearing the trees, and hope to have most of it completed today (Sunday).
The photos above are as follows:
1) View out window of five toppled trees at corner of house.
2) View in front of car, looking up driveway.
3) View in front of car, looking up driveway and toward corner of house.
4) View from front yard, looking toward driveway, showing round flower garden, bird feeders, and wind chimes.
5) View from top of driveway, looking toward origin point of fallen trees. (If you look closely at the left center side of the photo, the cream colored building is my shed and the red is my car.)
6) View from top of driveway, looking toward house and bird feeders.
7) View of origin point of fallen trees. Tree 1 was uprooted by the force of the wind, as seen by its exposed root ball. Tree 2 snapped at its base due to the weight of Tree 1 on it. Tree 3 (Pine Tree) was uprooted by the weight of Tree 1 and Tree 2 hitting it, as seen by its exposed root ball.
8) View of Tree 4 bowed over (and snapped) by the impact from Tree 1, 2, and 3. (Note: Tree 5 was flattened like a pancake, and was across the driveway, below Trees 1, 2, and 3. And several large branches were snapped off of the tree growing in the round flower garden.)
9) Angel statue (and tree) near toppled trees.
9 comments:
😱 So sorry about the mess. So grateful you were not injured and your house and car were spared. The last photo made me smile. You have an angel watching over you. Take care.
Oh my! You had so many trees come down! I am so glad none of them hit your house, shed, or car. The flower gardens and statues look like they survived too. The storm was so scary, especially the wind during the tornado warnings. I had half a pine tree come down and it missed my side window by inches. I went to my son's house for a few days while the power was out. There are still people without power. It was a huge power outage, almost 3/4 million homes.
Oh wow always so sad to lose trees this way. Happy you did not have any building damage-hugs
That was some wind!
You definitely had some damage. Sorry to hear (well see) that Anne.
Not to in any way minimize this disaster, but I suppose it really does fall into the category of it could have been worse.
...don't mess with Mother Nature.
So far we over here have no such natural power - glad nothing real bad happened to you!
Wow.
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