Wareheim said so far the wind has only knocked down branches and limbs small enough to be carried. "Nothing you need to get a chain saw after yet," he said by phone.
As I understand, the sentence is saying that: Nothing you need to get a chain saw after the hurricane is gone yet. But I'm not sure if my understanding is correct?
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To me, this seems like an unusual usage of phrasal verb get after:
You get after [someone/something] (with something). Wareheim's usage strikes me as a (US) Southernism, and the article does state that the man has a home in North Carolina.
The usual construction would be
In other words, there is nothing yet that needs to be handled, cleared, or destroyed with a chainsaw.