Tree damage 10 June 2009

The night of 9 to 10 June 2009, a series of severe thunderstorms struck southwest Kansas. There were a number of high wind events and a lot of tree limbs, etc were blown down. I filmed the tree limb damage in my front yard but never thought the city would respond so quickly. I should have filmed the tree limbs down in other yards but didn't and the debree was gone by 10 am!

Here, anyway, is a film of the damage in my front yard!




This truck was operated by a crew which moved the tree limbs from neighbor one's yard:




Might as well start with looking where the limbs came from:





Do you see the broken stub in the first three photos? I read a vampire novel which included a scene in which a Catholic Nun climbed a tree and stood in front of a broken limb like this one (she stood on a lower limb). The Nun attacked a passing, flying, vampire (with a pistol or rifle, I don't recall). The vampire was in the final approach of it's attack when the Nun moved and the vampire was impaled.

It was a very nicely written scene and I wish I could remember the novel.

Here are the limbs on the ground:





Here is neighbor two's yard after the clean up crew went by. I wish I'd filmed their yard before the cleanup.

Alaskan Eagle Talk

http://www.archive.org/details/TalkAboutEaglesInAlaska

My wife and I went to a salmon and steel head hatchery, where we enjoyed watching some Eagles and a lovely young lady talked about the Eagles. I don't remember her name but she was outstanding.

Obscene Cows

I found this image in a collection of ASCII Cows. This apparently sent on AOL and I recall downloading it from a BBS in Davenport Iowa in 1994. For your viewing pleasure:

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