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PHOTOS: Upper Gwynedd Police, residents team up for tree removal after Sunday storm

Readers captured interaction between police, public in effort to clear blocked roadway.

Managing Editor

Monday, July 1, 2024

Residents and Upper Gwynedd Police team up Sunday afternoon following a fast-moving, damaging storm in the area.

Readers captured interaction between police, public in effort to clear blocked roadway.

Upper Gwynedd Township Police teamed up with random drivers and walkers on Sunday afternoon to clear a large limb that had fallen across Swedesford Road following a fast-moving, windy storm forecast to have golf-ball-sized hail.

Reader and resident Michael Simpson, of West Point, was out for a walk with Andrea Havens on Swedesford Road, below Sumneytown Pike, when the flashing lights of the patrol car caught their eyes.

Residents and Upper Gwynedd Police team up Sunday afternoon following a fast-moving, damaging storm in the area.
Michael Simpson Submitted Photo/Michael Simpson

A downed branch had fallen and blocked Swedesford Road. As Simpson and Havens approached the roadway to help, two other drivers exited and numerous people teamed up to move the branch and debris and re-open the road.

Residents and Upper Gwynedd Police team up Sunday afternoon following a fast-moving, damaging storm in the area.
Submitted Photo/Michael Simpson

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Tony Di Domizio

Tony Di Domizio is the Managing Editor of NorthPennNow, PerkValleyNow, and CentralBucksNow, and a staff writer for WissNow. Email him at tony@northpennnow.com. Tony graduated from Kutztown University, with a degree in English/Professional Writing and Electronic Media. He went on to serve as a reporter and editor for various news organizations, including Lansdale Patch/AOL, The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., and the weekly Chronicle news editions of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. A fourth-generation Lansdalian, he attended North Penn High School, graduating in 1998. He once interviewed Jesse Spano in the back of a limousine outside North Penn High School.