This is my kids' favorite park. It is only a couple of blocks from our house, and during the summer we're there every day, some times twice. Miraculously, only the picnic area got smashed, with the tree falling right between the play structure and the merry-go-round. Lucky. Also, if you look in the upper right hand corner of the picture, you can see a few fir branches blowing in the breeze. About two hours after I took this picture, that tree fell on another picnic bench. Bad day for benches.
This is a big old tree directly behind our church. It fell over, obviously. But our Church was safe and sound - we lost a few shingles and a fan vent (I rescued it as it skidded across the parking lot. At the rate it was moving, I figured it was light-weight aluminum. Um - it wasn't . It probably weighed about 50 pounds. That's how fast the wind was moving.) But other than those two things, our building was fine. Divine intervention? Hmmm . . .
2 comments:
Amazing...
You shot some good pictures of the storm. There were a lot of miracle stories.
At River Point, they said they counted at least 80 tress that fell and only three hit property.
One of the people I work with said a tree that should have fallen directly into her neighbors house if you consider the wind direction, but somehow fell perpendicular to the wind, parralel between the two houses.
It's miraculous that more people and things didn't get hurt.
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