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| David McNitt at the Davis' | Bob pushes debris from the road by Davis' |
MICROBURST 24 AUGUST 1998 |
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| David McNitt at the Davis' | Bob pushes debris from the road by Davis' |
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| Bob's loader - south road | Discussion of the next tactic - south road |
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| Dave and his backhoe - south road | South road |
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| Bob in front of Davis' | Bob Howard in the loader, Dave Crowley with the chain saw - south road |
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| Bob's turn with the chain saw - south road | Peter Schenk in front of an upturned root system - south road |
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| South road | The big ash by Hunting's and Freeman's was lost |
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| A serious tool - the blade on this is 3 feet long | Cutting the remains of the ash |
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| Earl and JudyMacVane's house, though buried, was safe. The ash from across the road filled their driveway. | Earl and Judy's house hidden behind the fallen trees. |
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| Dave tries to hold up his end. The diameter of the butt end of the ash was 5 feet. There's a lot of history in those rings. | North road - phone poles snapped like twigs |
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| North road - a huge swath of trees went done across from Jim and Helen Colt's | North road - A J Alves, a DPW worker from Peaks Island, arrived later in the day with loader that nearly filled the road |
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| Phone pole by the Indian Trail - north road | Doug Rideout (left) and his wife, Bonnie, (not shown) cleared a huge portion in the middle of the north road. |
All photographs on this page copyright © 1998 by Shane Pitkin Barden
background tune: Hero's Dream - Jim Brickman
