Storm Damage, Dorchester
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Image: © Ian Andrews Taken: 28 Oct 2013
At 5.15am on 28th October 2013 we were woken by a loud crash and our lovely Elm was no more. Luckily it missed all the cars and most of the fence and only demolished the telegraph pole (and phone lines to 8 houses....sorry everyone). As it happens this was the first and probably the most minor of at least a dozen storms that were to hit the area in the next 3 months and it would have gone sooner or later as the heart was rotten. Behind it you can see our neighbour's large Eucalyptus; it was largely sheltered by our (much nicer) Elm and without the latter's protection from the prevailing south-westerlies, finally sucumbed on Christmas eve.
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