On the corner of Devinshire and Edwards, a bent trampoline is out of shape and a fallen tree, roots and all.
Tucker noted that Mayor Tracy Pribbenow spent the morning driving around a pickup truck, helping people out.
“She picked up at least three bundles of my branches,” Tucker said. “Which mayor do you see doing that? I was very happy about that.”
She added that she had to transport two or three more loads because it was a big tree.
“I just lost a tree up front,” she said. “There is furniture in the back. My neighbor’s trampoline was thrown in the trash. It’s all twisted metal.”
Tucker said she hates losing her tree, but she’s grateful it didn’t fall on her house.
“The hail was the size of a golf ball, but thin, like a flying saucer,” said Tucker. “I’m glad it’s not big and round, because then we’ll actually have some damage.”
Tucker was on her way to the burnt place with a pile of twigs rising, and she still had a lot of transportation to do.
“Rinse and repeat until it is too hot to do anything,” she says.
Public works worker Dan Bliss got the burn area under control on Thursday morning. He said he had been working until midnight before, cleaning the streets, and then he was back to work at 6 a.m.
Bliss said: “It’s done some trees around here here, that’s for sure.
According to Bliss, traffic to the burn site remained steady throughout the morning. He said they will be open until evening on Thursday. The city will keep the burning site open Friday and Saturday. Branches must be less than 6 inches in diameter.
The city will choose branches for residents if they do not have their own means to do so.
“If you can’t get it out of here, if you don’t have a truck or trailer, the city will take it,” Bliss said.
He added that he is grateful to the volunteers who help others so he has less to do.
Bliss noted that he had heard of a damaged structure beyond the roof, and that it was a barn.
Scott Griffith is making his sixth and final trip to the burn site in his pickup just before 11 a.m.
