Trees fell on wires too.
Storms blew through the Mount Vernon area last week causing trees to topple along the parkway and the surrounding neighborhoods causing two fatalities when trees came down on top of occupied cars.
On Friday evening, May 16, one of the victims was traveling on the George Washington Parkway in the Morningside Lane area when a tree landed on the car. The second fatality was on Frye Road near the intersection with Pole Road when another tree came down and killed the driver.
In another car, members of the West Potomac High School lacrosse team were impacted by a fallen tree while traveling on the parkway but the passengers were not harmed.
The U.S. Park Police responded along with the Fairfax County Police Department during the storm which had 70-mile-per hour winds causing power outages to 30,000 homes, some lasting more than two days. The Parkway was shut down that evening and into the following day, May 17, while crews cleaned up fallen trees all along the parkway.
Trees toppled on the Mount Vernon Bike Trail too, shown in this scene south of the Dyke Marsh.