Broken branches littered the streets of Carlsbad on Tuesday morning, a testament to the brief but ferocious storm that hit shortly after 6 p.m. Monday.
Many residents, such as Edmundo Orozco and Judy Moore of the 300 block of West Orchard, spent their morning piling the tree branches to be taken away for disposal.
"The wind was really bad, but there wasn't much hail," Moore said, adding that the wind was bad enough to blow the chairs off the porch.
Carlsbad resident Leslie Heinsch, 61, would have been happy if some blown-away patio furniture was her only worry Tuesday morning.
At about 6:30 p.m. Monday, her 50-foot-tall, 50-year old pine tree blew over, falling directly in the front of her house and garage in the 1300 block of Delta Street.
"I think it was a microburst because of the way that it has been uprooted," Heinsch said. "It looks like something just hit it and pulled everything up."
Heinsch was in the back of the house at the time, and said she didn't realize anything was wrong until she looked at her outdoor security camera system.
"I thought, 'I think I have a problem,' " Heinsch said. "Then my phone started ringing."...
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