Mighty Winds Make Mighty Good Neighbors
Noel Laflin
12-4-16
The wind
came whipping Friday past,
And struck
our tree with quite a blast.
Neighbors
came with saws and grit,
And cleared
the path that took the hit.
Here’s to
great neighbors who took it upon themselves to deal with this downed pepper
tree when we were not home. The strong
Santa Ana winds took it down late Friday night.
The neighbor to our left called at 11 pm to tell us about it. My long-time neighbor to the right took this picture early Saturday morning and sent it my way, informing me
that both the water and gas lines were intact.
A third neighbor called a short
time later to see if we were aware of the situation, and a fourth neighbor kept
us apprised of the progress being made by two wonderful other neighbors who showed up with chain saws
and went to work. Up until then, all I
could visualize was breaking out the old buck saw and having at it today. Instead, the driveway was cleared and we could
park.
