WASHINGTON -
It was another one of those no-named storms from the west, full of rain, strong winds and lightning, that blew across the Washington D.C. region Wednesday afternoon. It was powerful enough to knock down another tree - into two houses in Chevy Chase neighborhood of D.C.
It happened in Carol Capuano's front yard.
"Well, I guess it's Mother Nature," Capuano says. "And I'm not too happy with it, but the big old oak trees, they just eventually come down."
The tree crashed onto her roof and got her neighbor's house too.
Arcadia Place in Northwest D.C. has lost power again. The street was dark and hot for six days thanks to that June 29th storm.
"You know, (Pepco) said it would be within seven days and that's what they said, and they did actually hit seven days," says Margaret Lidstone.
She and her family are still recovering from the derecho. They lost a huge tree that stood in her front yard.
"We lost a car. Rather a car than a house," Lidstone told us.
Around the corner, there is another tree uprooted by Wednesday's afternoon weather. It was at Tennyson Street and Utah Avenue. It was yet another reminder there are untold numbers of trees in this region standing now, just waiting for the next sweeping of the winds.
"Obviously one of the attractive parts of the neighborhood is the beautiful trees," says John Windom, whose neighborhood lost power Wednesday when a tree fell, taking power lines with it. "But during storms like this, you kind of wish you didn't have nearly as many trees, so we've had our rash of tree fallings over the past three and a half weeks."
Fallen tree on Arcadia Place in Northwest D.C. (Duane Watkins / WTTG FOX 5)
