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Paderewski Approach – 10\/14\/06<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n I stupidly violated three separate town’s driving bans to open the doors at the Central Terminal on Saturday for Doors Open Niagara. I decided to take a detour from my usual route and drove up Delaware Avenue before heading over to the east side. I was shocked at the devastation of so many of our city’s beautiful, mature trees. I started to take pictures, but soon stopped because I didn’t have the heart to capture so much destruction. A good photojournalist, I’m not.<\/font><\/p>\n As I made my way over to Tim Horton’s on William and Bailey for some much needed coffee, a ferocious downpour of freezing rain pelted the car. It didn’t stop until it covered the road with its slippery pellets. Once I arrived at the terminal, I was greeted by a 3 foot wall of snow covering the entrance to the Paderewski approach. I made a small opening on the far right side with my trusty all wheel drive Volvo and headed up to the parking lot. Once on top of the plaza, I got to survey the damage: several of our newly planted bushes were toppled on their sides and several small and large trees had a few branches down. But all in all, the east side had faired much better damage-wise than it’s adjoining neighborhoods in the city.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paderewski Approach – 10\/14\/06 I stupidly violated three separate town’s driving bans to open the doors at the Central Terminal on Saturday for Doors Open<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-8o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}