Rutland Devastation, con't

We continued cleaning up the devastation of the April 16th Rutland storm during the week of April 23-27. Pictured above is an obviously smashed Cadillac, which was in the wrong place at the wrong time. This car was parked in front of a mobile home, making me think that this was the owner's prized possession. Hopefully, he/she has insurance.

We did some work at a couple of summer camps, one called Camp Betsy Cox (a girls camp) and the other called Sangamon (the boys camp). Sangamon had by far the most concentrated tree destruction I have seen in the Rutland area. Click here for a quick look at a tiny amount of the wreckage. We will be going back to Rutland periodically to clean more stuff up.

Rutland, Vermont Hit by Hurricane Force Winds

April 17, 2007
After getting April 16th off due to a late season 6-inch snowstorm, we headed down to Rutland, Vermont (about 1.5 hours south of Burlington). The drive, massive. Aram, Jordan, Mike, and I hopped in a couple of vehicles and off we went. The mission: to save Rutland and as many trees as we could. We heard rumors of over 1,000 downed trees. There were at least 100 trees down on city property. The same storm that dumped 6 inches of snow on Burlington produced 80 mile per hour winds that swept out of the mountains to the east of Rutland.

When we arrived at our first job site, this is what we found:




At this particular job, the client lost 6 massive silver maples. One tree went over, and like dominoes, the rest followed. Our task was to clean it up and get trees that were hung up in other trees, unhung-up. Get it? Some of the logs we were dealing with were about 3 feet across. Luckily we have a log loader, so we let mechanics do the brutal work. The miracle about this particular job was that none of the trees hit the client's house! For a quick movie of this job, click here. For another movie of Mike, owner, trying to deal with a huge hung up tree, click here and here.