Matthew – Aftermath
Leaving Us to Pick Up After Him
Matthew has come and gone, and we can only hope he stays gone.
Winter Parkers are fortunate that Matthew left nothing in his wake but a big mess. Here is how some of our neighbors were dealing with it after the storm moved north.
Peter, Charlee, Concetta and Maria on Via Tuscany. Peter has plans for that limb you see on the ground.
Matthew did leave a fun, if temporary, new jungle gym at MLK Park.
The best part of all is having good neighbors who help each other out. Thanks, Michael Vaughn and J.C. Peterson!
Photos courtesy of Kim Allen and Steven McElveen.
Where is the clean up crew where is the manager where is the mayor trees down everywhere
City crews are out there working on it right now.
Don’t see them maybe they are at the managers or the mayors place
I had to go and pick my neighbors tree and limbs up no one here from city Randy said he took a video in balmoral half hour ago I have asked to get the vudeo
I saw a video of Balmoral Road taken on Saturday afternoon around 3 or earlier. Everything looked cleaned up and frankly, better than my street. You must know someone to have such prompt service!
You actually posted this comment? Wow!
Yes why not we have trees down here in balmoral are you going to come and pick them up wow to you to
My experience with city workers in an emergency is great. During Charlie recovery a city employee was standing a hole in my yard with water up to his chest trying to repair my water line. Over the years tree dept, police, fire and utility workers have been 1st rate. I don’t know why your street wasn’t immediately cleared, but my experience with all facets of WP city government when you call for help has been terrific. There are a lot of streets and some may have had traffic priority.
We were blessed this storm was mild. Yet, I am bothered by the number of outages, mine included. Yet, curious about those unaffected by outages. Many places have been saved by underground lines. Can we make this a priority instead of waisting our time with an inappropriate placement of a memory care center?
I have been online to see if there will be trucks with a “claw” to pick up large loose yard debris. We had a huge oak branch fall and have chopped it up but do not have enough cans (inlcuding 2 of our neighbors cans) to hold all of it. Can you please let us know if this will be available?
Blow and go storm.
Join in a local cleanup effort at your neighborhood park, as we are doing in Virginia Heights! You can put the tools away afterwards 😉
Thankful that the storm caused mostly a mess and no one was seriously injured. Thankful that we have a good “team” at the City that kept the water running, most of us had power and flooding was held to a minimum due to past storm water projects. Thankful for neighbors that all pitched in and helped their fellow neighbors clean up.
Thankful for Commissioner Greg Seidel who has the good sense to continue to push electric power line under grounding. While other communities, i.e. Maitland, experienced significant power outages during the hurricane, WP had very few interruptions. No thanks to Mayor Leary who diverted $1million from the electric fund to an event center in Orlando. Would have paid for significant under grounding.
I don’t know that the $1 million slowed undergrounding. We received a notice our undergrounding was imminent when the city’s webpage has us listed as project #60-something out of #72 The undergrounding person at electric utility assures me the notice was correct and they’ve stepped up schedule and we are in line for it. The city could give $1,000,000 every month for a year and there would be no change in our financial condition. Maybe they collect too much. I think they do.
I agree why give our taxpayers money to other places I agree with you
Does this mean that the real estate developers will leave Winter Park alone for awhile, and head to places like St. Augustine, FL, and Hilton Head, SC, where they can maybe snag some real estate cheap before all the water rolls back into the ocean?
Be long on credit and short of finding fault. In this case, I want to give credit to the City of Winter Park on clean up after Mathew. It did seem slow; but, in the end, I found they did a good job. Thank you.