Five years later, trees still grotesquely twisted
The Bangor Daily News ran a pretty good retrospective over the weekend:
Tales of how emergency management personnel, utility company workers, radio announcers and ordinary neighbors responded after three days of freezing precipitation sent trees, power lines and poles crashing to the ground in glassy explosions are now the stuff of legend. More than 300,000 households, about half the state?s population, were left in the dark and cold, many for days on end. Six deaths were attributed to the storm, according to state figures.Evidence of damage to trees ten years later still easily is found around the state. The photo was taken in 2003, more than five years after the storm, at the base of Bald Pate near Sebago Lake in western Maine.
Ten years later, those experiences have been seared into the state?s collective memory, and many lessons have been learned if there is ever a similar weather event, say officials.
Posted by The Owl at 02:04. Filed under: Nature photography
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