The May 30, 1998 Storm in the Highland neighborhood of Saint Paul

The storms that hit Minnesota in the spring of 1998 did much damage. In my own neighborhood of St. Paul, Highland Park, hundreds of trees were lost. On the morning after the storm, I took my camera and walked around the neighborhood, taking some pictures of what I saw. Unfortunately, I only took one roll of film with me. However, what I did see I can show you.

There are a total of 24 pictures. I made a contact sheet of all of them, which unfortunately does not have an image map.

If you want to just automatically see all the pictures, I built some pages that will automatically take you to all of the pictures (at 10 second intervals).

If you want to reduce load time, I did make some thumbnails, which I put into a series of files so you don't have to load them all at once.

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This is my neighbor's tree, which lost one limb and blocked the road in front of our houses. It wasn't until late in the day that anybody showed up to clear it. At the time, we didn't know how much work the crews had to do.
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This is another view of the road being blocked. These trees were planted when the neighborhood was being built in the late 1940s.
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I walked north along Davern, heading toward where I heard that there was a lot of damage. On the way I found trees that were down. Some were snapped off at the base.
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Others were uprooted.
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When I got to Ford Parkway, I could see tree damage, both in broken limbs and broken trees.
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In places on Pinehurst where trees once shaded the street, blue sky showed through wounded trees.

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Last modified: Fri Sep 4 09:38:17 CDT 1998