Ha!

This is my neighbors yard in MWC.



I have no trees in my yard. This is my backyard with the trees from next door.



Finally the house across the street. This tree split in half but is still connected at the bottom. The part that split off is laying right across their porch blocking their front door.

We still have no power as the lines are down all up and down the streets around us.

That sounds like the exact same place where I am at. Do you live at The Park?

How do u think all these trees being damaged are gonna affect the cities appearance?

Especially the trees in downtown, bricktown, the river, etc...???

Tex--I do not. I live downtown near the art museum.

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If the trees are properly handled, in a year or two they should come back. However, we had storms like this back home in SoOK and we lost entire trees, they just couldn't handle it.

That said...my home here no longer looks like my home. I'm sad. I hope they hire a real tree person and not some hack to fix it all.

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It's gonna be bad. There's a video on newsok this morning about the tragic damage in Heritage Hills. It will never look the same.

I should edit my previous comment--the YOUNGER trees will bounce back. But those that are 50+ years old...who knows.

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Yesterday I drove around south OKC and Moore to view the damage. It looks like most of the big, old trees were severely damaged, but many of the new and smaller trees didn’t break under the weight of the ice. Hopefully this rain will wash the heavy ice off of everything and give us a better view of the actual damage.

BTW, I washed the ice off of my trees and house with the garden hose when it was just starting to get thick and didn’t end up with any damage at all.

Very nice pictures.

Norman was hit pretty hard by the ice storm. Unfortunately I don't think many of the big old oak and maple trees around town are going to make it.

I think my big elm, age fiftysomething, which lost about 20 percent of its crown, will survive nicely, especially since most of the area that dropped off was already dying and in need of pruning. (The one next door isn't so lucky; it split in two.) I will, however, lose a Vitex agnus-castus.

A huge tree at my old elementary school - Lafayette- completely fell over!
I just noticed it!

I also saw that Moore and Edmond schools are open...

I really don't understand how they can open OKC public schools if people dont have power....

I know Southeast has power, but i know Webster doesnt. A couple of my less fortunate friends have no more clothes to wear because they are all dirty.

how can they expect us to be prepared without electricty???
OKC Public Schools had benchmarking all this week but thatll have to be rescheduled and i had several reports due, but i have no where to go to print them out.

If the school system has schools with power and schools without power...will they only open the ones with power? or keep the whole thing down?

hope this works - amazing video of Heritage Hills area.

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Architect--BREATHE. Your reports will get printed. Don't worry about what schools will and won't be open. Let the administrators deal with it and you just deal with your end of it. I seriously doubt that your teachers are going to demand you turn in work that required you to have power to do it. I know I won't expect my students to be turning in papers and stuff like that.

It's still early in the day, I bet more and more places will be coming online as the day wears on.

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i'm breathing...
they will demand them. the first day were back. I emailed two of them.

I live down here in Heritage Hills and it sounded like gunshots were coming from all directions with the large limbs breaking.

I have seen limbs almost fall on neighbors while they were out assesing the damage. I have seen many cars under limbs. I have now seen 3 days with out power and no end in sight.....

It is about time the Corp.Com. looked into the reason as to why we do not have buried lines. They are there to help and represent the taxpayer and not the corporation....Sad thing is it hasnt mattered which party has been in control of the CC they have all looked out for the interest of the corporations that got them there through countless donations....

Paseo sounded similar, but I'm sure not as bad. I almost cried when I drove through Heritage Hills, all those beautiful old trees I haven't dared drive by Harvey & 16th yet where my dream house is, sad sad. I have been without power since Monday morning and bet all the neighborhoods in our area will still be down for a few more days.

Well about 10 minutes after my original post...power went out again. Still out. Neighbors two doors down on either side have power, but my house and two next door neighbors and then the two rows of home directly in front of me to the next street are out as well. We are just isolated it looks like...which is weird. We are also all underground lines here too...so who knows what is going on.

Have most of the house closed out and just camping in the living room next to the gas fireplace which doesn't really put out much heat. Having to keep charging the laptop in the car to really get any form of entertainment right now.

Definitely a sucky situation. Sounds like a couple more days.

Arc--I saw it on TV--OKC public schools closed Thursday.

Now you can breathe...for a little longer at least.

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You know how much it would cost to bury lines in the older neighborhoods? MANY MILLIONS of dollars. When some of that cost is passed on to the consumers, people will complain.

Good thing is that they are burying lines in the newer neighborhoods.

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they are saying OKC still has like 28 schools w/o power. it would be crazy at the end of the year saying that X amt of schools get out on May 30, but X amout of schools will go until june 7. i think that is why they are waiting until more schools are open.

edmond is open mostly because with all the new building going on, alot of trees have already been cut, per my principal!!

she is letting people bring their small pets and children because alot of daycares and other districts are closed, and it's not fair that we have to take time off!! today should be interesting up there!

Well, back to work, FINALLY. I was getting cabin fever. A lot of my students were SO whiny on myspace last night...WHY is our principal making us go to school, the roads are icy (no, they're not) there's a branch in my street (then move it, dimwit) it's not warm enough there (yeah, it is...especially if you're a kid without power right now) wah, wah wah!

I have work to do. Lots of it to get done, including two pressing yearbook deadlines. I WANT to be there. And despite my close proximity, I'd go regardless of where I live, if I could get there. I can't stand being stuck at home or shopping ANYMORE!

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