The Enterprise — Elizabeth Floyd Mair
It sounded like a gunshot at about 10 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 3, when this tree on South Parkway Drive in Guilderland was sheared straight down the length of its trunk. Half of it still stood while the other half pulled power lines down onto the road and driveways when it fell. National Grid was on the scene with floodlights and turned off electricity to the nearby houses; by Friday morning, the still-inactive wires had been pushed off the road and the homes were without power. Neighbor Pamela Fialkoff said of the sound of the sudden crash, “I really thought our house was falling down.”