Since the winter solstice, rain and windstorms have swept across Sonoma County and taken their toll, felling a number of branches and even trees that have kept the city’s Public Works Department—and its homeowners—busy and then some.
An oak tree on Dec. 24 lost a limb that crashed into the city’s Holiday Tree (though its lights were repaired before the day ended). The entire tree itself was removed a couple of days later, in a public display of arboreal maintenance that became a spectacle in the Plaza.
That same morning two trees on Lincoln Street fell on two cars on University Street, creating a Rorschach of branches and fiberglass, soon wrapped by a road crew’s yellow ribbon.
A week later the wind picked up early on New Year’s Day, taking down a stately (if leaning) Norway spruce at the corner of Manor Court…