A year or two back, an evening storm in late summer dropped a microburst onto Green Valley and Sahuarita, Arizona. Almost every power line was taken put by a combination of downed utility poles and the lines themselves getting torn down by falling trees. Approximately half a dozen steel masts, each easily sixty feet tall, holding the main power supply along South La Cañada Drive fell across the road. There was also significant property damage due to the wind itself and the flooding from blocked storm drains and channels. My balcony faces west, where the microburst originated from, and the wind had forced water through the weather seal around the door as well as through every west-facing window. My downstairs neighbor, in a ground floor apartment, said the water was jetting around *his* balcony door like a lawn sprinkler. Getting home from work was a bit of a trick...the first three tries ended roads blocked by police due to downed power lines or large debris. One of the officers helped me figure out a way home that wasn't blocked, but it was partly luck, normally gated development opening service gates so that people could get past the downed lines. Local power company was already unloading excavators and other heavy equipment from transporters two hours after the storm hit. They rigged a patch to restore power to the area twenty hours after the storm, but it took them almost a week to put up new masts along La Cañada Drive and re-open the road. Driving around the next day to find ice I was amazed at how far east the damage extended. The burst had hit, I'd guess, west of the intersection of La Cañada Drive and Duvall Mine Road. There were toppled trees and blocked roads across Interstate 19 in the Madera Highlands subdivision. That's several miles from where it started.

Wow 😮

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Dead trees with no root system! No visible means of support. What did you expect? Oh my gord!!

wonder what caused this?

I was in that storm It Looked Like a tornado

Nothing to see here, just Mother Nature cleaning up the landscape.