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Monday, July 11, 2011
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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"I am still here ya bastard!" again quoting papillon. 70 mph winds this morning rolled through while as at work. when i saw the amount of construction debris flying around and the dust storm from the recent dry spell i knew i was in for some trouble. it was a wicked straight line bow echo front that punched out 600,000 people without power in chicagoland area. thankfully i still have power to keep the humidity down in the house and the 95 degree temps are staying at bay from the cloud cover. so i was listening to the radio and googling wind gusts on my smart phone and saw plainfield and crest hill had 70 to 75 mph winds. then i got free from my afternnon job due to rain and started home. branches off trees down rt 53. big branches. coming down theodore st. heading west branches down on almost every tree down the road. turn on to rt 30, more trees down. turn into subdivision. have to back up cuz whole tree crossing the road one block from my house....this is when my heart skipped a beat. pulling towards house and i have a 6" thick branch on my front tree snapped and hanging in the road....not a good sign. and to my amazement......i got lucky. i have always hated that neighbors tree to the west that shortens my evening sun. not today. good tree. 4 partially rolled over ends to secondaries on the 1725. no snapped leaves. 4 partial rolled over secondaries on the 1493, one snapped leaf. no damage to the 1209 at all as it was the most buffered from wind direction. it was the rolling backwards east wind in the rolling wall of wind the rolled them back towards the west which was the way the storm came from. i have seen this many a time with these storms. everything back in order and rolled overs propped up and reburied and secured with long garden stakes on the sides of the leaf stalks.
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