An enormous 150-foot pine tree crashed through a Scripps College French professor's faculty home Friday night as wild winds caused serious damage to homes in Claremont.
– An enormous 150-foot pine tree crashed through a Scripps College French professor’s faculty home Friday night as wild winds caused serious damage to homes in Claremont.
Julin Everett says the electricity had gone out on East 11th Street and as she lit candles, suddenly there was a terrible sound.“I heard the tree crack and I ran to the back of the house and the tree landed within feet of me,” said Everett.stretches into its 3rd day.
“My vocabulary isn’t big enough to describe everything we heard. All the different sounds and everything. It was horrific,” said Monroe. “It took out a gazebo and swing and part of the guest house above the garage. The fallen pine has swallowed the adjacent yard.”“It’s been very hectic. A lot of trees have gone down in the city of Claremont,” said Eddie Martinez, owner of Elite Tree Care.
Jeff Ramdass is scrambling to find wifi, “it’s been three and half days. I just had to throw out all of the food from three days where we thought we could salvage it.” The lights came back on for some residents living near the colleges but for more than 600 households power still out. Crews say they cant restore power until they remove all of the treesClasses were canceled today at all Claremont Unified School district campuses due to the weekend windstorms that caused major damage to many homes and took out power lines throughout the region.
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