On the morning of Friday, August 20, the car in front of me made an oblique right turn onto New Hampshire Avenue NW from the left lane of 16th St. southbound. I followed him, for as he turned, I could see that a tree was down across 16th about half a block south of U St. Judging from what the cleanup crews left, its roots had simply given up, and it had fallen:
On the evening of Thursday, August 26, I was merging onto 16th St. NW from 15th St., when I saw buses turning off on to Irving. This suggested that something was wrong up ahead, and I detoured to 14th. When I came back west on Upshur, I could see what was wrong: a tree was down across the northbound lanes, so northbound traffic was diverted through one of the southbound lanes. This tree did not pull up from the roots:
I can't imagine what splintered it so.
Then on Saturday a tree was down across Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park between West Beach Drive and Wise Road. A fellow on a bicycle supposed that it had fallen about two hours before, say 10:30 in the morning. I did not look for how it had fallen, just stepped through branches and went on my way. A friend lost power for several hours when a tree fell across Dale Drive near Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring.
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