A WEE WIND
And a wild and wooly night it was.
What started as a gullywasher booming around us
Tuesday evening, August 1,
turned
into a microburst,
a downburst, or a tornado. It cut a swath across Northwestern Franklin County.
Power went off for a couple of hours around 1
a.m.,
I
think,
although
we
both slept through that and through the ash tree from our front yard dropping
into the road. We have half a dozen
trees down in the side yard and more damaged. We did lose the a/c which eventually
awakened us but I didn't know then, in the dark, that anything had happened.
Power came back on and we awoke again to the sound of tonka toys and chain saws.
The Vermont AOT to the rescue. We poured coffee
and they made sawdust. The higway clean
up took a couple of hours. And the big ash, the best tree on the lawn, was history.
The trees blocked the road, landed on our little drywell pump at the bottom of
the yard, came down next to the barn, came down next to the smoke house, and
didn't hit a single building. Unbelievable.
I was surprised that I didn't find any photos
of the front of the house with the ash in full leaf. These will have to do:
BEFORE:
AFTER:
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