Two months after Irene, we get hit again.
The snow wasn't bad, maybe 8-12", but since the trees still had leaves it turned out to be a disaster.
In the past several months, my neighborhood has seen a tornado, a hurricane, an earthquake and a freak sleet/snow October nor'easter.
Cowboy
I heard on the radio that Central Park was going to lose up to one thousand tree due to the storm. Dang, that must be tough.
Andy
Cowboy
There are supposedly 25,000 trees in the park (843 acres, a large number of them now-rare Dutch Elms.
There will be a massive clean-up effort, as the NYC Marathon (which runs it's last 2.5 miles through the Park) is happening in 6 days.
Cowboy
My town, Rutherford, NJ, was hit not nearly as bad as Conn but the schools are closed at least until tomorrow and only a few street are passable. Rutherford is known as the "Borough of Trees" and has taken a beating since Irene and now the snow/ice storm. We have many old sycamores planted in poorly choosen locations that are now down everywhere in town.
Clean up time stimated at 2-4 weeks in town of some 8,000 homes. Wires are mixed in with the down trees making clean up worse.
Like Angelo we have had it all this past year. Although Hurricane season has been only Irene, winter looks ominous.
> Lots of People without power
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> Two months after Irene, we get hit again.
> The snow wasn't bad, maybe 8-12", but since the trees still had leaves it turned out to be a disaster.
The whole NE had a similar storm on October 6, 1987. Even with out of state help from power and telephone companies, it was months getting everything fixed.
It was not fun. I was lucky. Only lost power for about 3 days. Many went longer.:-(
