After predictions that both T.S. Bonnie and Hurricane Charley would both dump buckets of precip on the city and therefore ruin everyone’s weekend, the remnants of both storms bypassed the area. Some of Charley’s outer bands clipped the city, but for the most part, the weekend was dry and cool.

While it is hard to image what damage a full force Charley-like storm could do if it had a direct hit on Washington, there are reminders of tropical storms past around the city. Last year, when Hurricane Isabel was setting its sights on the North Carolina coast, people in D.C. feared a repeat of Hurricane Hazel in 1954. But Isabel weakened and quickly moved out of the area.

Despite a weakened Isabel, thousands of trees blew over knocking out power for days in some areas. While the city did an adequate job cleaning up the debris that fall, the U.S. Park Service was slow to clear fallen trees that blocked hiking trails.

Nearly a year later, there are still trees down all over forest reserves like Glover Archbold Park. DCist snapped this photo over the weekend of an uprooted tree that crashed into a community garden in the Whitehaven Parkway greenbelt near W and 39th streets in Glover Park.

More on Charley at Gothamist Weather.