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A large Maple tree fell in the 2800 block of Pleasant Avenue in Hamilton's Lindenwald neighborhood, crushing a chain-link fence.Click to enlarge

Volunteers from Lindenwald United Methodist Church work Monday, Sept. 15, to clear tree debris Hamilton's Lindenwald neighborhood following Sunday's high winds. Click to enlarge

A large Maple tree fell in the 900 block of Corwin Avenue in Hamilton's Lindenwald neighborhood, blocking the driveway and landing on a neighbor's front steps.Click to enlarge

HAMILTON — Residents of the city's Lindenwald neighborhood are working this week to clean up the limbs, branches and entire trees following the second bout of weather-related damage there in less than a month.

The remnants of Hurricane Ike toppled a mammoth Maple tree in Stanley Miles' Pleasant Avenue yard, sending it crashing down on a chain-link fence shared with neighbor Earl Donges.

"The trees are just too rotten," said Donges, who recently replaced another fence after a fallen tree limb damaged it during an Aug. 24 storm. "The city should do something to get them out of here because it's just too much."

About a half dozen volunteers spent several hours in the parking lot of Lindenwald United Methodist Church Monday, Sept. 15, working to clean up the six Bradford Pear trees and two Maple trees that fell, making Hayes and Arlington avenues impassable Sunday and knocking down a power line.

"We used to say 'I Like Ike' but that was in 1952," said church trustee Bob Dronberger in reference to President Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign slogan. "We don't like Ike anymore."

Raking up leaves from a Maple tree that fell across her Corwin Avenue property and onto her neighbor's front steps, Robin Trelut was relieved she drove her sport utility vehicle to a Cincinnati Bengals game instead of leaving it in its usual spot in the driveway

"If I would have been here Sunday, my car would have been totaled," Trelut said.

Next door neighbor Sharon Bloom heard the crash but said she did not see any reason to get hysterical, even with the tree's foliage encroaching on the front porch.

"It's a shame because we lost a tree but it's an act of nature and we got off light... no one was hurt," Bloom said. "For me, that was a blessing. This is all we got and they're down there (in Texas) treading water."