Hurricane Irene

4:45 pm, August 27, 2011: It's too early to tell what, if anything, will come of Irene. It made landfall in North Carolina as only a Category 1 hurricane and the likely path up the coast puts DC in a tropical storm zone rather than a hurricane zone. The brunt of whatever is to begin later this evening and go into the morning.

However, we already have a tree blocking our street!
This tree was damaged over a year ago when a limb constituting about a third of the tree came down in a big thunderstorm. The rest of the tree has been leaning precariously toward the street ever since. Although we reported the tree to the city, and several neighbors also reported the tree to the city, the city decided there was nothing to worry about. For over 12 months, folk have avoided parking under the tree. Well, another major limb has now fallen into the street and the hurricane is barely begun.