Smoke still rose from tree stumps, and even the blessed rain clouds delivered new bolts of lightning.

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As I was driving back from Westchester Airport on Wednesday, October 31, post-Sandy, dodging huge branches and driving by upended tree stumps taller than my super fun, super cute, super tiny Fiat 500c, affectionately known as Luigi, I envied my brother David his 4-door Jeep Wrangler Unlimited and its trail-rated, go-anywhere capabilities.

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With the help of many PTA volunteers, we installed a large green house, water garden with fish, bridge, butterfly garden, weather station, sundial, archaeology digging area for fossils and minerals, tree stumps for counting the rings, benches for an outdoor classroom and reading area, and over 60 different plants, shrubs and trees.

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He said the injuries were likely caused by Goldman flailing around while under attack, striking tree branches and stumps in the small, partly enclosed area where he died.

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Future forestry concessionaires will be obliged to attach a bar code to each tree they fell (and the stumps they come from).

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