Stuff the Wind & Rain Knocked Down

[canyonwalker]

This morning I posted about heavy rains and winds in California over the past few days. Of course, it's not "over" for Southern California even though the storms tapered off last night here in the SF Bay Area. Today I snapped a few pictures of things blown down in my neighborhood.

First, here's a photo of the section of fence that blew down in our townhouse community:



This pic is the "16 hours later" version of the scene. Yesterday when it blew down there were boards from the fence scattered all over the drive. In the photo above you can see the loose boards stacked neatly in a pile on the curb.

While I was out for lunch today I spotted a tree down a few blocks away in our neighborhood:



While there are small branches down all over the place, this is the only spot nearby where I've seen a whole tree, or even a major branch, down. Fortunately the location of this tree and the direction it fell meant that not only did it not injure anyone, it did not even cause property damage (beyond the cost of cleaning it up).

On the whole this damage is fairly minor for such a strong and widespread storm. As I noted in my previous post, there's no flooding around here, no mudslides, no people injured or killed. We clearly got the lighter side of it.

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[some_other_dave]

My friend Eric, who lives not far away, had two trees fall on his property. Both his and his wife's car were attacked, but I think they got away with only minor scratches.

One or both of them were city-owned "street trees", so the city is responsible for cleaning up after them and deciding if they stay or are removed.

The big tree in our front yard is also a "street tree". It has shed large branches onto our neighbor's driveway twice since we've owned the place.