A reader sends in the photo above and @DCPoliceDept tweets:
“Traffic Alert: MPD reports a tree is blocking all Eastbound traffic in the 2500 block of Porter St, NW at (Connecticut Ave). DDOT and Metro notified. Please follow the directions of the Police officers./7066″
Another readers sends in this one:
It’s a massacre
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blaming Pepco begins in 5…4…3..2…1
Finished taking down the tree on the corner of 2nd and Independence SE. That was a grand ole tree that I will miss.