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NNadir

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4. We just had an extreme weather event in my neighborhood. The north end of our block has a tree laying across it...

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Thu Jun 19, 2025, 07:36 PM

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...supported by a powerline that hasn't broke (yet). Trees down all over town and I was scared of having one coming down on me on the south end of our block.

Branches down all over the place; somehow my trees are intact.

The rain was coming down as if from a faucet in the sky, turned up high.

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