Bishop residents are cleaning up after a powerful storm swept through the area Thursday night, toppling trees, damaging fences, and knocking out power in parts of the community.
Bishop neighbors band together in cleanup efforts after Thursday’s storm damages trees and property
Manuel Vasquez, who has lived in his Bishop home for almost 20 years, spent Friday morning picking up pieces of his wooden fence that had broken off due to the strong winds. Multiple trees on his property broke during the storm, with branches barely missing his roof.
“Only about 40 feet to my house, I’m lucky. No damage to the house or anything. It was quick, it didn’t take 20 hours or five hours or nothing just one pass and that’s it,” Vasquez said.
Mario Garcia woke up to a loud crash in the middle of the night. When he checked his backyard Friday morning, he discovered his mesquite tree had fallen, with parts landing in his neighbor’s yard and knocking over some wires.
“I heard we had high wind gusts and obviously knocking over a mesquite with a trunk about that big it had to have been something big to take it down. We’re glad we got through it, everything is fine. Now is clean up time,” Garcia said.
Christian Garcia, a freshman at Bishop High School, reported seeing the school’s new scoreboard face-down on the ground Thursday afternoon. Christian and his father were checking on neighbors and offering help after discovering a tree had fallen in their own backyard…