A tree fell down

        April 25, 2026

A tree fell down
and all my neighbors were there to hear it.

        Hello again, sorry to bother you…
I didn’t plan to send you an update this soon after my last one, but it’s been an unprecedented couple weeks on my block. I was putting little hearts on the photos I took of what happened last night, getting ready to make a post about it on IG, but I’m a new person now, gotta cut that out.
So I started writing this, and realized I want to draw it. “It” being multiple things that have never yet happened on my block in the time I’ve been living here, until this week. One sec, BRB…
Ok, I’m back. Here’s how it went, in backwards chronological order.
Yesterday:
A tree on our neighbor’s property fell down onto a lot with an abandoned RV and knocked down a couple power lines it tripped on, on the way down.
Me, hearing the tree fall. My Cintiq turned off and I didn’t even realize it at first because I was so shocked by the noise.

Me, looking off my deck at the decapitated power line pole. I saw at least two of my other neighbors come rushing out to look, too.
Our power was out from the time the tree downed the lines until sometime in the early morning before I was awake. It took out one of my neighbor’s fences. The neighbor who’s decaying RV and car was crushed by the falling tree hasn’t been by to see the damage yet, but no one has his phone number on our block, so I guess it’ll just be a surprise! (???)
The DWP guys worked all night, it looked like when all those science people show up when they find ET. There was a lot of yelling, but it wasn’t angry. At one point we heard some worker shout to another, “I love you bro!” By morning there were two new, metal poles up, and the power was back on.
Tuesday
There were helicopters circling the neighborhood, telling an unhoused person to come out of a shed in someone’s backyard. My kid’s school went on Lockdown because of it!
(see caption) I only knew why the helicopters were circling because my neighbors were talking about it in our group chat right before parents got the heads up that the school was going into lockdown.
Monday
I was pruning a tree and I hit my chest so hard with the branch cutter that I let out an OW. I think I bruised my rib & I missed out on dinner with friends on Thursday because when I laughed it was still painful on Wednesday, and I knew I couldn’t make it through dinner with no laughs.
The week before…
Someone turned the power off using my neighbor’s circut breaker, and then tried to break in WHILE THEY WERE HOME. Lights started shining down in our backyard, and there were lots of cop cars on the street.
Someone tried to break into our neighbor’s house while they were home. We saw the search lights shining all around our backyard while we were watching Mythbusters and eating dinner.

Me and my daughter, looking out our backdoor, trying to figure out what was happening
TGIF, friends.
Fam Bam Broken Rib Land
Your Friend,
E

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