You can’t seem to drive through a neighborhood in Webb City that doesn’t have chopped-up trees and limbs on curbs.
The damage was done Saturday night by winds estimated at 85 to 100 mph.
Ellen Bourassa, on South Jefferson Street, was watching TV at about 11 p.m. Saturday when she heard a crash. It was the tall pecan tree in back of her house falling through her second-floor roof.
Seth Wilson’s house on West Seventh Street had been shaded by tall trees. But his yard seemed barren after a crew removed the remains of four large trees. They missed his house when they fell, but two pickups in the driveway were totaled.
If you only lost electricity for a few hours or a day, consider yourself lucky because there are pockets of homes that didn’t get their lights turned back on until Tuesday night (or later?).
Joel Stephens, an employee at the sewer plant, went in early Sunday just to check on a system alert, but he “got stuck” there to deal with the army of trucks bringing in trees and limbs.
Limbs will be picked up at the curb
City workers with dump trucks are going around town this week picking up storm debris left by the curb (not in the gutter). Limbs are to be cut 5-foot in length. No commercial wood, siding or shingles will be picked up.
Webb City residents can also haul their storm debris and natural vegetation to the city’s limb yard located at the wastewater treatment plant, 2100 N. Madison St., Monday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Recycling bins are stationed off Madison Street at the entrance to the sewer plant.
