Hurricane strikes backyard!

[Xringer]

Well, the wind was blowing like crazy, when I heard the loud cracking
and ripping sound coming from the backyard..

As I turned to look, I just knew those solar panels were doomed..
But, the tree limbs (on this side) missed the tracking array by about 30 feet!
It was a very old tree (~20" diameter trunk), just over the line in my east side neighbor's yard.
It was NW corner of his land, and it fell SSE, right on top of his new hain-link fence!
The tips of a few limbs hit his house, but I can't see any damage from here.

The ground is soaked, and I'm a little worried about some of our trees
being blown down on top of our deck or the PV arrays.
Our garage is in danger from two very large trees on the east side. (next door).
(So I moved our new bicycles to the west side of the garage).

The tree that fell is north of those two trees, just north of the big dark shadow.


This is an old pic that shows the tracker in it's old location,
before I moved it 20' north.

Anyways, I hear the 'Eye' of Irene is still down in Connecticut.
But the rain should stop soon and all we will have to deal with
is flooding basements, high winds, falling trees and grid failures..

We seemed to have lucked out on the rain so far.
Maybe we will dodge the bullet again.?. I hope!

And tomorrow? If the sun comes out and the wind slows down?
I'm going bike riding on my new bike!!

Cheers,
Rich

PS:
I'll try to get a pic of the crashed tree tomorrow..