US snowstorm leaves Central Park braced for loss of 1,000 trees

[alp227]

Source: The Guardian

The snowstorm that struck the US north-east over the weekend has caused unprecedented damage to woodlands and parks, with 1,500 trees lost in New York City alone.

Central Park – where a record 2.9in fell on branches still heavy with their red, amber and golden leaves – could lose an estimated 1,000 trees, ten times the loss caused by Hurricane Irene two months ago.

The storm, which broke record snowfall levels for October, left millions without power and 11 dead.

The ill effects of the storm lingered into the week, with more than 2.2 million homes still without power on Monday morning.

A National Weather Service spokesman said the early-season winter storm brought particularly wet and heavy snow due to near-, but not below, freezing temperatures. As a result, branches were overloaded and entire trees felled.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/31/us-snowstorm-weather-central-park

[virgogal]

1. God I hate to see trees lost. What damned shame.

[shraby]

2. Same kind of storm split our huge maple out by the house.

We called a tree man and he said we could cable it together and it would be okay. It appears to have healed, but we still have cables on it for extra strength. The base of it is probably 3-4 feet in diameter (or more) it looks like it was 2 trees many years ago. We've been here over 20 and it was a full tree when we moved in.

[virgogal]

3. Good luck with it. Neighbors of ours did that many years ago with

an apple tree and it worked----but of course that was a much smaller tree.

[shraby]

9. It's doing real good. The split appears to have healed and

the tree just keeps on growing.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. NYC got less than 2 inches.

To lose more than 1,000 trees is remarkable.

[rocktivity]

10. Because the trees hadn't lost their leaves, the snow on them weighed the branches down

I heard a buzzsaw going at 3AM Sunday morning, and I knew it was emergency tree surgeons. It's bad enough when you have to lose them to disease.

:(
rocktivity

[onehandle]

5. Crap. I'm in the Philly area right now. I saw a Lot of limbs on the ground and a few felled trees.

Snow + full leaves = tree disaster. Stupid global warming 'myth.'

[SkyDaddy7]

7. Did you forget the "sarcasm tag"...

Stupid global warming 'myth.'???

[bluedigger]

6. If only there was a semi-organized group of people nearby.

People that needed firewood, say...

[Recursion]

8. *shrug* the ramble could use some defoilation

Depends on where the trees are I guess.