Amos and I have wanted to go to the
Huntington Library and Gardens for a few years now, but it is really hard to get tickets for their free day. Our friend Rachel had several free tickets that she was giving away, so we decided to take a trip this morning!
We left a little before 10:00 and headed down multiple freeways to Pasadena. As we got closer to our destination, we started seeing splintered trees and severed limbs along the edges of the freeway. Getting off on the surface roads, we saw more downed trees and blacked out traffic lights. We drove up to the gates of the Huntington only to be told by two cheerful guys that the gardens were closed because of the power outages. We decided to drive back through some other roads to see more of the cracked and dismantled trees. Amos commented that I was just like my dad, who loves to check out all disasters. One day Dad took off work to go check out the broken and flooding Folsom Dam; "you have to see these things while they are happening!" The terms "ambulance chaser" and "rubbernecker" come to mind.
Anyway, we took some pictures of the carnage. You can click on them to see a larger version.
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| This tree is being held up by the powerlines |
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| I don't think this tree hit the house, but it was close |
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| Road block! |
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| More powerlines and road blocks... |
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| If you look on the left, you can see the asphalt that was cracked by the tree roots |
1 comment:
I really hope you can get to the Huntington soon! This is one of my favorite places in CA--my grandparents took me a few times during college. It's beautiful when the roses are in season. (And there's a rose there called "Austin Heather." Who would've thought?)
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