helwen

A little excitement on the way home...in Ashfield, nearly to our turn, we saw a man by a car at the side of the road on Rt. 116, waving a flashlight, so we started to slow down - then we saw the broken pieces of a tree spread across the road and pulled over. The tree came down in front of his house in a spat of heavy winds and a woman hit part of the downed branches. Looked like her car was still functional so she probably managed to swerve a bit, but she did lose some parts of the bumper, so they were working on collecting the pieces. Lyle and I helped to clear some of the debris off the road (it's dark there). Stopped one person coming up the hill too fast; she helped a little then drove through the lighter debris on past. Stopped the next person who was coming up too fast; he was able to help push the branches off to the side of the road so other folks would only be running over small stuff. There's a few branches down on our road too, but much smaller and not blocking the entire road.