Wind Blows Many Trees Down In Lions Park, Cheyenne

Wyoming winds brought down trees, powerlines, and ripped open roofs across Wyoming. I saw some of that destruction after driving through Thursday's mighty windstorm down Interstate 25, from Casper. You'll want to see the pictures of that road trip and the many wrecked trucks at this link.

The internet is now full of the mess made in Cheyenne. Here is some of what we saw when we drove into town.

This was the first downed tree we saw at Lions Park.

That prompted us to drive around the park to see what else was down.

This big fellow, below, did not trip over in the normal way. Look at the bottom of that tree.  No roots were dug up. That sucker SNAPPED and fell.

Roots were exposed everywhere in the park. Any tree that had not sunk its anchors low enough rocked and tipped up, bringing massive amounts of soil with it.

Big branches crossed roads and sidewalks.

Cottonwoods are not good and standing up to punishment link this.

Does anyone need some firewood?

Some trees just needed a trim, and they sure got in on this day.

Some trees were lost altogether, and they will be missed.

That is a big root system below.

What do you think the gusts' forces were to tip over that sucker?

A tree fell on a side road along Pershing and across Ames Court.

No damage done here.

We did see a man come out to look at his car, which he decided to move in case the tree above it gave way.

Here is that same tree from the Pershing BLV view.

That is a big sucker. It's a good thing it fell in the direction that it did.

Here is a crew on Dillion Avenue cleaning up a massive tree that fell across the street.

Neighbors were all out in the wind, watching the crew work and talking with excited gestures about the tree coming down.

Not everybody was so lucky.

The photo below shows a car crushed by a big tree, big wind, and an unfortunate parking decision.