Here It Is The End Of The First Week Since Devistation Struck

and while signs of progress have been made and are still being made, what stuck me was the  now browning of leaves and small branches by the hundreds of thousands still every where in sight. The staging area at Lake Highlands High School has returned to normal with so signs of all the stacks of utility poles, flat bed trailers of transformers, pallets of wire, dumpsters marked scrap metal while others were marked trash.The mobile command center Oncor set up is gone now, as are all the trucks loaded with utility workers from 11 states that came to help. Parks and Recreation Crews are still cleaning up the trees that were lost to the storm. The gaping holes in the canopies where hundred year old trees stood only a week ago are more than just noticeable, they are painful memories of what once filled those vacant openings. As of Friday, the total count of felled trees stood at 62. Damage to tops and upper limbs run well into multiple hundreds. In the deep woods of White Rock Creek  to the west of Goforth going north to the curve of the northeast service center where are near a dozen more that were not counted, although three at Flag Pole Hill were included.

Landscape crews, both park and recreation and private landscape companies will be cleaning up for not weeks but months to come. My interest has begun to shift to the summer rains and what will flow into the lake yet to come. There will be problems on to that end I am almost sure.

Flag Pole Hill

Yesterday, I got my first look at the crane that collapsed onto the Elan on Live Oak Street. It is being reported that the crane will remain where it is for at least another week. The ones that were displaced and put in hotels by the owner of the Elan City Lights Apartments, Greystar

Flag Pole Hill Across street from first image.

Crane that fell during storm on Sunday,June 9th and took a life of a resident. It will remain here for at least another week. 

Greystar, ended their paying of hotel bills yesterday. Later next week, it is being reported that the cars in the multi-level parking garage will start to be lifted out from the top down beginning sometime during the coming week.