They experienced upward of 100 mph winds. Serious hurricane force winds. LeGrand said it was pretty scary listening to the wind blow. He said he could tell something very different was going on.
The Sunday after we got home we had stake conference. Our stake president said that just in our stake alone we lost over 700 trees! The landscape of Bountiful really has changed. I have found myself just driving around every now and then still looking at all the damage. I don't mean to belittle the damage or the experiences, but it is amazing how many blessings were received. This storm brought service- lots of service. Just last weekend Mike was able to go out and chop up some more trees.
This is a picture of the line to the dump. People said they waited for 3 hours in the line to empty their debris at the dump. Because the line was so long they set up temporary dump sites at the high school and church parking lots all over.
The big pine trees were the hardest hit. Their root systems aren't as strong or deep so those strong winds knocked them down like dominoes. Luckily we didn't loose any trees and had no damage to our roof.
Our neighbor across the creek lost over 10 trees and a one of them fell across the creek onto our deck and hurt the railing.
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