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Gone with the wind: But where?

For a few days, at least until Tuesday's winds came blowing in, the streets of Sacramento’s central city area were looking clean. The colossal mess left by the Oct. 13 storm was taken care of, for the most part. The giant fallen elm trees had been hauled away. Loose piles of branches and Mother Nature’s other castings were nearly all swept up, leaving the question: Where did all that clutter and debris go and where will all this new mess go? Chances are that the old 100-foot tall elm tree that fell on a home on the 3400 block of J Street two weeks ago, could end up powering someone’s HDTV. “Typically we recycle all the wood waste, grind it up into woodchips that are then converted into e

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