And fir, and spruce, and oak. We have more pictures of fallen trees. We have had a chance to explore the woods on our side of the road and also at the local conservation land about three miles away.
This is an oak tree (above) from the Smithfield Plantation conservation. We found more oak trees down here as compared to the evergreens lying around near our house. It is also interesting that the typically weaker tree species (birch, beech, poplar, etc.) are not among the blow downs. Apparently, the stronger, tougher you are, the easier you fall?
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Power to the people
On day-6 of the storm of the week, our patrol up the street found where our neighbor’s lack of power originated. Some helpful passers-by set wayward transformers aside so as to allow traffic to continue (which was only partially helpful; another half mile down the road was tree and power line issues that kept the road closed until day-6). One of my routes to and from work was blocked for almost ten days.
From another patrol across our road into the woods, we found numerous large (LARGE) pine and fir trees uprooted completely.
