One of the most obvious Earl related problems was the extended power-outage. While most of our friends managed to have power restored to them by Saturday night, a few friends were without power until late Sunday evening. Fortunately, at least as far as I know, basically everyone has had their power restored. So I guess much of the damage wasn't too bad, though a good number of power lines were knocked down.
Earl did do a number on a number of trees. Fortunately, most of the trees in our part of town (the South End) escaped without too much damage. Sadly, the same cannot be said for trees in other parts of the city. For instance, our friends who were without power for over 24 hours, also had a tree from their neighbour's property come crashing into their backyard.
It seems that on its way down this tree smashed the neighbour's empty shed. Fortunately, the she seems to be the main victim.
Somehow the deck seems to have escaped relatively unscathed.
Down the street there was another tree that suffered rather dramatically at the hands of Earl. This tree seems to have had branches snapped off. These broken branches then came to a rest on the roof of the house. While it doesn't look as though too much damage has been done (at least from what I could see), it seems possible that there is damage that isn't visible from the outside.
Another friend felt the effects of the storm through it's impact on the Marine Atlantic ferry schedule. What was most shocking about the delays he experienced is that while they were bad enough to be annoying, they weren't bad enough to put them behind schedule by more than a few hours.
While there certainly were a few other consequences as a result of Earl's presence, in general, I am impressed by the lack of damage and quick clean-up. I suspect that within a few days visitors to the city won't even know that we were recently hit by a tropical storm.
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