Island Scenes: The Great Blow 1995

	F Carmichael 1995


	Over 160 trees have come down since 1950

The great blow in November 1950 took down at least 60 large trees, so that as late as 1959 it was impossible to walk from one end of the island to the other without crawling through dead branches.

Another 70 trees came down during the microburst of 1986, and 27 more in July 1995.

These were the last of the large birch, seen in the earliest photographs. They completely covered the boathouse. It took three chainsaws and five men to clear the paths, including Raymond and Ray, Sr., above.


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