So hot and humid today......
way too hot for my studio....
so I spent the day on the computer at home.
but at 5.30pm, watching a huge rainstorm heading our way on the weather radar on the net,
I stepped outside for a breather.
gale force winds swept in out of nowhere, snapping the 100year old tree in front of my house.....
crack..branches spinning like a propeller...split vertically through the trunk.
I was lucky I was not standing there.
I was lucky my car was parked in the driveway....
I thought the roof of my house was going to explode off!
I just stood paralysed as the tree cracked and fell.
....normally on hot days I park under under its shade.
and a couple of houses down,
another glorious tree snapped like a twig, barricading the road.
in the park, more damage.
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| the line of destruction...straight through to my house! |
then as fast as it arrived, the sky lightened and the wind and turmoil was gone.
lots of excitement...
lots of state emergency workers with chainsaws and maniacal grins.
sad for my tree...it will have to be removed.
sad for me with nowhere shady to park!
and sad for the possum that used it as a freeway link onto my roof, where he'd run thumping and jumping and galloping at 2am in the morning. heh,heh,heh!
there's always an upside!
Jo x
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