When a reader reported a fallen tree on Vine earlier today, we appealed for other reports or photos. Colleen obliges with the photo above and this report:

Walking down Vine Street today @ 2pm, we saw this tree that had just fallen. Crushed a car and landed on the pods truck there for a pod pick up. Roots just snapped off at the base. Pod truck guy swears he didn’t hit the tree. Homeowner agreed with him. She saw the whole thing. We were glad we spent a few extra moments smelling the roses at the Rose Garden so we weren’t under this tree!

Lance Knobel (Berkeleyside co-founder) has been a journalist for nearly 40 years. Much of his career was in business journalism. He was editor-in-chief of both Management Today, the leading business magazine...