"I feel like someone has died"

I confess: I was grateful that Prospect Park was formally closed (if easily entered anyway) for days in the sad aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. It seems like yesterday that Irene felled so many great trees, and now so many more have fallen. I'm a coward, and still haven't gone in; what was visible along the periphery (Prospect Park Southwest, below) was heart-rending enough.

Others, however, are not only brave but damn hard-working. Here's an excellent report from WNYC on the arboreal carnage in the park and the gutsy volunteers helping to start cleaning up (at least before the coming storm interrupts their cleanup of the last one):

...and it ain't over...