{"id":92,"date":"2008-06-11T22:53:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T02:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2008-06-11T22:53:11","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T02:53:11","slug":"a-tree-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/2008\/06\/11\/a-tree-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"A tree falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As predicted, our heat wave was broken in dramatic fashion last night with the arrival of some intense thunderstorms. At about 7pm, a series of small-ish storms came in. We lost power for perhaps a minute&#8211;not long enough to fetch a flashlight&#8211;but our neighbors down the street didn&#8217;t fare quite so well.<\/p>\n<p>A large street tree came down during the storm:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/tree-across-17th-street\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97\" title=\"tree-across-17th-street\" src=\"http:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/tree-across-17th-street\" alt=\"This tree came down in the storms of 10 Jun 2008\" width=\"425\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/tree-across-17th-street 425w, https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/tree-across-17th-street-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the tree fell in the street, not on a house.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/fallen-tree\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98\" title=\"fallen-tree\" src=\"http:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/fallen-tree\" alt=\"Alternate view of fallen tree\" width=\"425\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/fallen-tree 425w, https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/fallen-tree-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tree did take some electrical wires down with it, to the point of ripping a neighbor&#8217;s meter box from the side of the house. I suspect their power outage lasted longer than a minute:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/meter-box\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99\" title=\"meter-box\" src=\"http:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/meter-box\" alt=\"A meter box ripped from a house after tree takes down power lines\" width=\"425\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/meter-box 425w, https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/meter-box-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As predicted, our heat wave was broken in dramatic fashion last night with the arrival of some intense thunderstorms. At about 7pm, a series of small-ish storms came in. We lost power for perhaps a minute&#8211;not long enough to fetch a flashlight&#8211;but our neighbors down the street didn&#8217;t fare quite so well. A large street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brookland","category-environment","category-homeownership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}