Thursday's high winds toppled at least one tree in Plainfield and brought down large branches throughout the community.
The house above, just off the corner of Sandford Avenue and East Front Street and across from the new Senior Center/condo construction, is the most serious victim that I spotted in a jaunt around town Thursday afternoon.
A large branch broke away from a tree and fell lengthwise on the sidewalk on West Front Street between Melrose and Compton Avenues and was cordoned off with yellow Fire Division incident tape.
Overall, though, Plainfielders may consider themselves lucky this time around with no injuries or power outages reported.
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Come on Dan, it was not just "Luck".
Give some credit to the Town & Utility crews which always get lambasted for cutting away "too" much, as it wasn't all dead etc., from the shade trees so those outages do not occur in foul weather.
Sign me - Reformed Tree Hugger
Dear Reformed Tree Hugger --
People will always argue about how much gets trimmed from so-called 'city trees'.
The two that I mentioned in the story happened NOT to be city trees, but entirely within the owner's front yards.
If I give points for the trimming of 'city trees', what do we do about the refusal of the City to inventory the dead 'city trees' that need to be removed?
The one at Watchung and Carleton hasn't been touched since I called attention to it months ago.
And, pulling over the other day to photograph a foreclosed property on Norwood Avenue near the bridge, I noticed a totally rotten 'city tree'.
When these fall over and kill a driver or pedestrian, will we call them 'lucky' or 'unlucky'?
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