Glen Park neighbors tell harrowing stories of damage from recent storms

The first report of damage caused by Tuesday’s wild storm that the Glen Park News received was of a tree toppling down on the 500 block of Arlington Street, bringing down a power line. Residents on that block and others were without power for several hours.

It was among the trees that have fallen from the latest atmospheric river to wallop the Bay Area and Southern California.

Jodell Scott, a resident of the 500 block, says, “To be honest I’ve never seen such a hard-working crew out there for hours in the pouring rain. There were a lot of trees on the wires and it was a very dangerous undertaking. Still some clean up remaining, but looks like everybody is OK and the cars look ok too.”

A fallen tree blocking Arlington Street. Photo by Chase Tingley.

A tree leaning against power lines on Arlington Street on March 21, 2023. Photo by Chase Tingley.

A downed tree on Arlington Street on March 21, 2023. Photo by Chase Tingley.

The PG&E outage report as of 9pm Tuesday shows widespread outages in Glen Park. The site indicated crews had been dispatched but restoration of power was to be determined. Currently there are spotty outages of up to 49 homes in the neighborhoods near Glen Park.

On the Bosworth Street median at the 1100 block, reported nearby resident Meryl Glass, a large tree became uprooted and is leaning precariously against the tree next to it. “The Urban Forest Ranger was here last night for damage done to a number of our neighbors” on the 1100 block below Dorothy Erskine Park.

The storm took out several trees in Dorothy Erskine Park, once again damaging nearby homes on Bosworth Street. The previous story about storm damage to homes below Dorothy Erskine Park was picked up by the SF Standard.

This eucalyptus tree at the top of the park is uprooted and leaning, caught in the branches of another tree. No houses are in danger.

A large tree on the ridge was uprooted and is now in a precarious position right above two homes.

Uprooted cypress tree on Dorothy Erskine Park rests precariously on ridge above Bosworth homes. Photo: Octavio Di Sciullo

Two homes on the 1100 block of Bosworth were hit again, as well as a home on Burnside Avenue, with a tree falling on their property.

Tree falls affecting three properties on Bosworth St. and on Burnside Ave. Photos: Octavio Di Sciullo

The most impactful event was a tree coming down the hill onto a house (the one with solar panels), breaking a skylight, causing some interior damage and water infiltration and ruining a bathroom.

Tree falls from ridge onto Bosworth home, causing extensive damage. Photo: Octavio Di Sciullo

Elsewhere in Glen Park a tree came down across the trail from the Bosworth extension to the Glen Park Rec Center. Rec & Park has caution tape up and a two-man crew sawed it apart.