Surveying the damage
Jun. 23rd, 2013 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkMy immediate neighborhood got off easy, although there were a few big branches and random downed trees here and there. Richard and I biked around Lake Harriet and Calhoun the day after the storm, leaving home about 2pm. I was astonished at how quickly the streets and bike paths were being cleared. Kudos to the City of Minneapolis, and even more to the army of cheerful residents that pour out of their doors with chain saws and heavy gardening gloves every time something like this happens.
Remember a season back in the late '90's when we had one savage storm after another and the urban forest was devastated all over southwest Minneapolis? This doesn't look nearly that bad, at least so far. It looks like there was a ferocious blast of wind that hit the northwest edge of Lake Calhoun and picked up steam across the lake to take out another swath of trees on the southeast side of the lake. Very little serious damage on Lake Harriet.
I will now attempt to use the "new, improved LJ gallery" for the first time since they rolled them out a year ago. I was totally unsuccessful in using the "improved" feature last time I tried it. Let's see if it's gotten any better. Hmm. Well, embedding a picture is actually easier than it was. But I don't see any way to add a caption. Bummer. All I get is the tiny picture - no click-through to the larger picture in the LJ gallery. Anybody know how this works?? I did find a way to add a click-through link, but I had to copy/paste it in by hand. Surely there is a way to do it automatically?
Tree down on north side of Lake Calhoun
Trolley volunteers repairing damage to their beloved Lake Harriet line.
Remember a season back in the late '90's when we had one savage storm after another and the urban forest was devastated all over southwest Minneapolis? This doesn't look nearly that bad, at least so far. It looks like there was a ferocious blast of wind that hit the northwest edge of Lake Calhoun and picked up steam across the lake to take out another swath of trees on the southeast side of the lake. Very little serious damage on Lake Harriet.
I will now attempt to use the "new, improved LJ gallery" for the first time since they rolled them out a year ago. I was totally unsuccessful in using the "improved" feature last time I tried it. Let's see if it's gotten any better. Hmm. Well, embedding a picture is actually easier than it was. But I don't see any way to add a caption. Bummer. All I get is the tiny picture - no click-through to the larger picture in the LJ gallery. Anybody know how this works?? I did find a way to add a click-through link, but I had to copy/paste it in by hand. Surely there is a way to do it automatically?
Tree down on north side of Lake Calhoun
Trolley volunteers repairing damage to their beloved Lake Harriet line.
