Hurricane Sandy damaged plenty of Lincoln tress — many still at the height of their autumn colors.
Accuweather.com offers some amazing statistics on Sandy: the second-lowest barometric pressure ever reorder for a hurricane (27.76 inches at sea), waves of 39.67 feet (recorded at a buoy about 20 miles east of Bermuda), and 9-foot storm surges in New Haven and The Battery, N.Y. Lincoln got off fairly lightly, though more than half of homes in town lost power in the storm, and the muffled roar of generators could be hear in many neighborhoods for days afterward. Still, it could have been worse — Redhouse, Md., got 26 inches of snow.
Elizabeth Cherniak of South Great Road heard a loud crash as a tree fell across power lines on the road adjacent to her driveway. “Then a transformer exploded—it was like a bomb going off,” she said. “Then I noticed little fires up in the wires and the tree trunk was glowing” as the tree began to burn. Fortunately the heavy rain doused the fire quickly.
