it wasn't a tornado

i'm a great big tree, just standing here minding my own... wow. that was a nice breeze. hehe. it's raining, that tickles. we've had a lot of rai- hey, easy on that wind, buddy, i'm trying to grow here... i tell ya, give a wind a little room and it thinks it owns yo-- hey!! knock it off!! woah!! i said...

this tree didn't fall over because the branches were leaning on another tree which, miraculously, kept it from falling through the back of someone's home.

this tree just fell over. plop. like i'm a little tea pot. tip it over and it falls out of the ground. i was at the pool in the locker room with a bunch of kids, some from day camp, some from lessons. i recognize that i don't do groups well. i had to start talking to the kids about pool safety. i had to engage them. some of them were teary eyed cuz they didn't know what was going on. i was baffled as to why the day camp counselors weren't leading a sing-a-long. isn't that, like, day camp required?

this was my neighbor's yard. my landlord's daughter told me this afternoon the tree removal alone cost 2 or 20 grand [i think that's what she said]. nothing to say of the cost to repair the house it fell into. this shot shows the sidewalk that was completely lifted from the roots. the corner of the garage is also lifted.

this is the house, or the back porch/stairwell where the tree collided [it's the back of the house]. you can see the label from the insulation. i'm not certain if this window is an extended kitchen. the tree provided a lot of coverage from the train, which runs over the garages in out back yards.

this is a tree that fell over the fence in the graveyard. the ruins from the graveyard are breathtaking. this is the place where is it hardest to convince those of us who see it every day that there wasn't a funnel cloud on our street. there is a clear path. and it's narrow. and it jumps. ... whatever. i didn't take meteorolgy in school.