A couple of cell phone pictures from my neighborhood.

A couple of doors down from my house and across the street. 

This is at the north end of our alley — I had never noticed how enormous this tree is.  There is a garage under this tree.  It used to be in the same back yard with the tree.  The tree pushed the entire garage into the center of the alley and crushed it.   Along with the power lines running to my house.    Word on the street is that when the top of that tree landed on the house at the right, the homeowner was in the crushed room, which he used as a home office; but that he escaped unhurt.  Apparently there have been no reported injuries.  Remarkable, considering how little warning people had, and how little time to take cover.

Power was back on, it seems, by 11 p.m., with new poles running lines down the alley (although the tree and the crushed garage are still blocking the end of the alley).  I must say, the city crews and Xcel Energy did a damn fine job restoring power quickly.  In the ten years I have lived here, Minneapolis has impressed me with its response to severe weather in general.