Last night we had a severe thunderstorm roll through the area, causing damage throughout the city. Winds were up to 70 mph, 2.25 inches of rain. We lost power around 10pm and it was eventually restored by 4:30 pm. We had minor damage to our fence but many of our neighbors had much greater damage. Here are a few pictures I took while wandering the neighborhood, waiting for power to come back.
Evidence of the large amount of rainfall: the high water mark of leaves in people's yards. The street would have had to be completely flooded for the water to get this far into the yard.
This street light was pulled down by a limb from a tree limb that fell and landed on the power line for the light.
I'm guessing the damage at this utility pole was the cause of the loss of power in our neighborhood. Our block is fed through these lines and as you can see, several were snapped (again, by falling tree limbs).
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