City crews say just get it on the tree lawn

[Betsy Voinovich]

Hi all,

I gave Chris Perry's advice a new thread because I thought it was important that people see it.

Chris Perry said:

Given the severity of this storm, we have temporarily set aside most of the yard waste rules and regulations as part of the storm clean-up effort. We will take whatever our residents can manage to get out on the tree lawn – do not tie or bundle anything – just get it out there and we will collect it.



This came from Chris' post in the "Why did First Energy send trucks to East Coast?" thread.

"Your City Public Works crews starting cleaning up storm debris before sunrise on Tuesday morning. As of Thursday afternoon at 3:45 pm, City of Lakewood, Division of Refuse and Recycling crews have collected 145 tons of storm debris throughout the city.

Needless to say, I have been impressed with their effort and more importantly, their resolve to clean-up our city in the aftermath of this storm.

Given the severity of this storm, we have temporarily set aside most of the yard waste rules and regulations as part of the storm clean-up effort. We will take whatever our residents can manage to get out on the tree lawn – do not tie or bundle anything – just get it out there and we will collect it."

Thanks Chris.

Betsy Voinovich

[Valerie Molinski]

They did this on my street. The city crews have been awesome through all of this.

Two neighbors had trees down in the front. Another neighbor chopped it up and put it on the tree law and the city just grabbed it this morning.

[Jim O'Bryan]

They did this on my street. The city crews have been awesome through all of this.

Two neighbors had trees down in the front. Another neighbor chopped it up and put it on the tree law and the city just grabbed it this morning.

City crews have done an amazing job.

I was talking with Joe Beno the other day about the tree situation and he mentioned that
according to his records 70 trees on city property (parks, treelawans, etc) had fallen in the
storm. I was amazed at the number as Joe had Lakewood's arborists taking down dangerous
trees for about a year. But he assured me 70+ was the number.

For them to come back as fast as they did with the crew they have was spectacular.

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[Missy Limkemann]

One of the city crew members came to our house personally to make sure we were ok. The debris is too big for us to move to the tree lawn, but he was so worried. We were joking that I was going to steal the bulldozer and just clean it up myself. LOL. I was so impressed they stopped by to check on us. The one even offered to take one of my dogs home, however the one he wanted hates cats and he has a couple of them. (oh by the way I am in a coffee shop working a bit....still no power...)

[Toni C Northrop]

Thank you so much to the city for helping out!! We had a tree blown down and had no idea how we were going to deal with all the debris. Neighbors came with chainsaws and helped us out but the tree lawn was completely full. Bundling it all would have been a gargantuan task. A couple of city workers stopped by and took it all for shredding.

Thank you so much!!!!!
Toni