About 24 hours after wind and rain sent a large, likely 100-year-old elm tree crashing down between the Portland Art Museum and St. James Lutheran Church, residents and passers-by were still ogling the wreckage Wednesday morning.

At SW Jefferson Street and Ninth Avenue, a one-way street headed west, cars and buses rerouted and pedestrians stopped to snap photos of the sideways trunk completely blocking the road.

A skateboarder even tried to jump the tree from the portion of the sidewalk that the tree’s sprawling roots lifted, creating a makeshift ramp.

The collapsed tree may be there for a while.

Portland Parks & Recreation’s 10-person Urban Forestry crew clears trees from roadways, and more than 100 downed trees cluttered Portland streets after Tuesday’s rain and windstorm, said Mark Ross, a spokesperson for the bureau.

In the aftermath, arborists on duty were focusing on the trees that had brought down power lines, blocked major streets or jammed access for emergency responders, Ross said.

As of Wednesday, the city could not provide an estimate for when it would remove the tree down at Southwest Jefferson and 10th Avenue. For now, the Park Blocks isn’t a priority because alternate routes exist downtown, said Ross.

Two arborists were working overnight in response to the severe weather, he added, but it could be weeks before all the trees and branches are cleaned up.

The Portland Bureau of Transportation closes roads when tree hazards appear but doesn’t take the lead to clear the debris, according to city officials.

“It’s all over the city, which is unfortunate but it requires a little bit of patience for folks after these kinds of events,” said Hannah Schafer, a spokesperson for the transportation bureau.

“Because when the trees come down, they come down a lot.”