Hurricane Sandy photos.

[Eric Muehlbauer]

A few photos from my neighborhood. Compared to other big storms, the tree damage was not as bad, but still some big ones came down.

 

[cnycharles]

crunch

are those people walking right next to a downed power line?

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

No, those are telephone and cable lines. I knew that tree was a disaster in the making...I've watched it for years. It was a massive silver maple...beautiful trees that are also monstrous and totally unsuited for urban landscaping. Huge, brittle, they come down very easily in storms. It's no longer legal in NYC (I believe) to plant them within 100' of a dwelling. This had an enormous horizontal branch stretching across the street, over 2' in diameter. Fortunately no one was hurt, but you can see what it did to the car. When I heard a tree was down on Exeter St, I knew that was the one.

 

[mormodes]

Trees! Why'd you have to show me trees? I have two that are gonna be trouble, too, but *nothing* like these pics!! Ah, the pain. Ad that's just trees. Is it true there's some parts of NY where there's sand in the streets covering cars like they are snowed in? From the surge?

 

[GuRu]

I watch your photos with awe of the force of nature ! I hope life in the region of NY will get back to normality very soon. Good luck !

 

[bullsie]

Seriously, those folks were very fortunate with the tree falls. Last year we had a big white pine come down near the farm house. We were fortunate it landed a different direction, but thought nothing of the impact if it had landed on the house till the tree trimmers came. They had just come from a place much like ours where the tree had landed on the house. The limbs went through the roof, attic, second floor, first floor, and stuck out the basement ceiling 8" (like our old farm house, it also had the 10' celings). Gave us a whole new outlook on the tree laying in our yard.

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

Holy cow, those are sobering pictures.

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Looks pretty bad Eric. That silver maple in particular. I heard there were a bunch of trees down in Central Park - do you have any information on that?

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

Only that trees came down. As I said, most downed trees I saw were rotted at the base. Wind wise, this was not a big storm...Irene was worse, but the storm lasted longer than Irene. The tornado/microbursts we had 2 years ago caused way more tree damage, because the winds were so strong (up to 135 mph) that healthy trees came down. A friend of mine had an oak branch 18" in diameter rammed into her roof.

 

[Clark]

#2 for me
Those folks were lucky.

 

[SlipperFan]

Sad. On multiple levels.

 

[rdlsreno]

I am so sorry to see this. My heart go to you guys!

Ramon