A tree decided to end things once and for all as it fell at Divisadero and Page Streets, taking out a few Munilines with it.

Obviously traffic was closed in both directions in the immediate aftermath, but crews have been sawing the tree apart and according to one report traffic is open in both directions in one lane.

Aside from the Muni lines, there were no reports of damage, but plenty of photo ops for passerbys:

R.I.P. tree. You looked like an old one.

Yikes. Egads. Oh dear. Crash. This pretty tree fell on top of a pretty Mercedes-Benz in pretty Pacific Heights during last night's storm. Pretty crazy, huh? According to CBS 5's Cate Cauguiran, who snapped the pic, the tree fell on Pine between Buchanan and Laguna.

Below, firefighters work to remove the fallen tree.

Local photog Brendan Luna snapped these shots of a tree blown over by fierce winds in Duboce Park on Saturday. "Windy conditions on Saturday at about 2 p.m. caused a large tree in Duboce Park to be uprooted and fall on parked vehicles," reports the Examiner. "A fire dispatcher said no one was injured. Winds were gusting from the west up to 27 mph."

by Lisa Hix

Like many people, Cari Zinter is looking for a place, a nice flat in the East Bay — except she would prefer that flat to be a platform in a tree. And she's willing to pay rent for a good solid oak in a backyard.

She'd been riding her bike across the country and decided she would like to build her own permanent residence in Oakland. In the name of finding "alternative ways of using space to live," her home among the birds would be rather simple — built on a 10-by-10 platform, with a wash basin for laundry and bathing, and a system for collecting rain water and using her urine for compost. In the future, she would even consider installing solar panels for electricity and a zip line to bring her bike up and down. She says she's hoping to inspire a new way of living, maybe even a whole community of people living in treehouses.

But perhaps Zinter, originally from Ohio, is unaware of how unpopular tree-sitters have become after a dozen or so poo-flinging activists — including our favorite Dumpster Muffin — spent 21 months altogether sleeping in the oak grove in front of UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium. Failing to prevent the university from chopping down the trees to erect a athletic training center, the last four were neatly plucked out of their perches on September 9 when construction workers built a scaffolding for the Berkeley cops to reach them.

Ouch. Is this your car? Our condolences. Yesterday's breezy breezes by DPark seem to have dislodged a branch directly into your rear window. If you need more photos for insurance, let us know -- we've got a bunch. In the mean time, everyone else can busy themselves with feeling smug for not owning this car.

Oh, and you're probably wondering who that guy is.

As we were photographing this epic scene, a Guatemalan walked past and insisted -- gesturally -- that we take his picture amidst the carnage. All he could say in English was "David" and "Guatemalan," and he enthusiastically posed next to the vehicle looking tough. Er ... okay. Then we shrugged at each other for about 5 minutes because neither of us could figure out how to communicate with each other. So anyway, here's David, ladies and gentlemen.

Well, this is some sad news.

An unidentified woman was sent to the hospital today with life-threatening injuries after part of a redwood tree fell and smashed her at Stern Grove today. It seems, according to KCBS, that the woman had just walked her dog, who was not hurt, and as she was getting into her Subaru Outback near Concert Meadow, "part of a tree broke off and fell," crushing her as it came plummeting down.

The woman was whisked away to San Francisco General Hospital by paramedics, in critical condition.

Update: She died at 12:14 p.m.

The maker of those little tree-shaped air fresheners you find dangling from rear view mirrors have sued Gap Inc. over Old Navy's use of the iconic image in a t-shirt, emblazoned with the slogan "Keeping it Fresh." The federal lawsuit, according to the Examiner, was brought against the local retail mammoth in U.S. District Court in Syracuse, N.Y. The company, simply titled Car-Freshener Corporation of Watertown, claims that "the design on the T-shirts is identical to their trademarked design, which is used by the company on car air fresheners, apparel and other items."

The company is looking to bar Old Navy from buying, selling, and advertising its tree-designed items.

That said, here are some Old Navy locations in the Bay Area. You might want to think about taking an early lunch break to head over and buy one before the controversial shirts sellout. Much like Paul Frank's and Abercrombie & Fitch's t-shirts that were supposedly racist and banned a few years back, these shirts are sure to become collector's items as well. Go buy four of them.

(Before we begin, we should point out that all of this rain is very good for us. That said, it is our God-given right as Californians to go clinically insane over the slightest change in weather patterns. So: %@#%^W$&^&!)

SFist Deborah snapped up the picture above this morning from high atop San Francisco's Glen Park/Sunnyside neighborhood. She sent it to SFist HQ with a message along the lines of, "Hey, look at this dead Xmas tree. Ha Ha." Cute, huh?

the jump, check out the "after" shot to see what the storm did only a few minutes later.