Down Burst on Wednesday Night

You should have seen our back yard! We were in the sunporch night before last, closing windows against the rain, when a huge branch on our backdoor neighbour's butternut snapped off and crashed down through our next door neighbour's black walnut bringing two branches to land of their tips between our porch and the garden shed. No damage! But it will cost $100s to have them lowered safely to the ground and removed. Rght now they are leaning on the roof edge of the shed and entangled in the branches above with the butternut top spread out like a skirt on the ground. And of course, our backyard was littered with every kind of leaf and twig not to mention walnuts and butternuts. We paid granddaughter S a buck a bucket to pick them up and she quickly made three dollars. Having witnessed a tornado on Sunday, she was pretty upset when the wind came up and the branches crashed down. But the next day she was delighted with the money making cleanup scheme.