MPR’s William Wilcoxen visits St. Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood, where the clean up along the Highland Parkway is taking place after a windstorm downed much of the tree canopy in area. Along with trees, homes and cars were left damaged or destroyed.

Highland Parkway is a broad residential boulevard divided by a grassy median. It runs from the Mississippi River up a hill to Highland Park and slopes back down to rejoin the winding river on the hill’s other side.

The May 30, 1998 storms were part of a larger weather event called The Southern Great Lakes Derecho of 1998, which traveled 975 miles from southern Minnesota to north central New York in 15 hours, with an average speed of 65 mph.