UPDATE: 12th/Holden crash; SW Edmunds tree

5:40 PM: A crash is reported to be partly blocking 12th/Holden, so if you’re headed that way, you’ll want to detour for a while. No major injuries reported so far – one SFD engine dispatched.

5:59 PM: Another traffic alert, while we’re still in PM prime time:

Thanks to Ian for the photo and report: “There’s a big tree down behind Safeway in the Junction, on Edmunds. It is partially blocking the street, cones are in place.” As the photo shows, SDOT is on the scene.

10 PM: A nearby resident just told us via X/Twitter that “the tree is still there, but they trimmed it back out of the road and put caution tape around it.”

Socialcontract May 16, 2024 (9:21 pm)

Mother Nature ready to start light rail demolition.

Cass May 16, 2024 (9:53 pm)

Second tree down outside Elan 41 in the last month. Pretty scary that these huge trees are uprooting in 15ish mph wind.

I love beer May 16, 2024 (11:17 pm)

Trees are more dangerous than people realize. They get big, and gosh, those leaves are sometimes so messy. I have seen lots of them.

Marcus May 17, 2024 (2:02 am)

Wow, I was checking for a car collision but no. Could not tell if that was a sweet gum or not. They tend to be very brittle and the winds do intensify or funnel to larger gusts on these building lined streets. Lost a tree sweet gum in front of my house in similar fashion.

waikikigirl May 17, 2024 (10:58 am)

Between SW Roxbury and SW 116th St on 26th Ave SW both sides of the road is lined with Maple trees, they’ve been there as long as I can remember. The County trims the tops and non-street side of them to keep them out of the power lines and it’ll only be a matter of time when one or all will come down… hopefully not on a person or a vehicle! 🤞

BJG May 17, 2024 (11:47 am)

Up and down California Ave. the City power line tree trimmers have been carving the aging canopies in vee shapes at their centers. Besides being ugly and precariously overhanging the street, they only rely on scant rain water more than half the year. Can’t be very healthy. What’s next?

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