Spring has finally arrived, landing upon quite a blowdown landscape. Be it yards, streetscapes or, most obviously, woodlands, there is an uncommon showing of downed trees and branches.
The cause of the abundant breakage was heavy snows – as in the actual weight of the wet snow – accompanied by at least a dozen wind events with gusts to 50 mph.
A road I commonly use, appropriately named Poor Man’s Parkway (possibly in my honor), looked like a tornado zone, wonderfully cleared by road crews.
More bothersome for my ilk are the blowdown blockages that have befallen dirt roads in the Pinelands.
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