Re: The past storm

We drove across San Francisco to get to a medical appointment on last Friday morning and saw many broken or uprooted trees. We had to detour from our planned route due to a tree that had fallen across the road on top of a utility pole. Branches and dangling wires everywhere. A number of the broken trees were blackwood acacias. They are prone to wind damage if not pruned to thin their natually thick mass of branches. On our block, two fences landed flat on the sidewalk. Neither hit a parked car, but one came within a few inches of doing so. My garden is pretty much OK, except that the pretty yellow cosmos that was still blooming is now flat on the ground.

 

The wildest story I heard was of a woman driving along a wide street in SF, nearly the only car on the road. She felt her car shudder, looked back and saw a tree, roots and all, blowing down the road in hot pursuit. She had to gun the engine to avoid being rear-ended by the tree!

 

Pam Peirce

San Francisco

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