Here is what I woke up to this morning. 5 trees down in the front, blocking the driveway, and one in the back, 6 trees total.
The oak and the pine each took a maple, plus there was a small spruce in the yard. The oak had insulators in it for the pasture fence. Luckily, we switched from high tensile to polyrope and it just stretched, so no horses escaped. The insulators pulled out, but the root ball caught the rope.
The weird thing is, it took an hour before I knew the trees were down. It happened before daybreak and woke me up, but all I remember was hearing the strong wind (the trees were already down). I came up here to my radio room (where I took these pics from) and turned the scanner on while watching the radar and everything was relatively quiet. But man the wind just kept up, it was weird, no real gusting, just a STRONG continuous blast. Like nothing I'd ever felt before. I've lived here since '95, and that wind just felt weird. So I eventually determined that the 2nd story was no place to be and went down stairs, when I just happened to see a car going down the road and I could then see the brush from his headlights.
The funny thing was, not a single branch hit the house, out front or out back, but it did suck the dryer vent off of the house and sent it down the driveway, lol. The one maple hit the utility pole and leaned it enough to pull the weather head off of the house, but it didn't break any lines, electrical service, phone or cable.
I had some timber cut a couple years ago, and I had them take 3-80/100' white pines off of that bank because they were starting to concern me ........ boy was that a wise choice!
The good thing was, my wife worked nights at the hospital last night, so 1 of our 3 trucks was "outside" the quagmire. Oh and I got a new chainsaw out of the deal too! I have a couple of older saws, a 14" Craftsman and 16" Homelite that you have to fiddle with for 30 minutes for a 5 minute maintenance job. So I called my wife and told her to stop and get me a new saw since this was no simple maintenance job, lol, and she came home with a 20" Stihl
The oak and the pine each took a maple, plus there was a small spruce in the yard. The oak had insulators in it for the pasture fence. Luckily, we switched from high tensile to polyrope and it just stretched, so no horses escaped. The insulators pulled out, but the root ball caught the rope.
The weird thing is, it took an hour before I knew the trees were down. It happened before daybreak and woke me up, but all I remember was hearing the strong wind (the trees were already down). I came up here to my radio room (where I took these pics from) and turned the scanner on while watching the radar and everything was relatively quiet. But man the wind just kept up, it was weird, no real gusting, just a STRONG continuous blast. Like nothing I'd ever felt before. I've lived here since '95, and that wind just felt weird. So I eventually determined that the 2nd story was no place to be and went down stairs, when I just happened to see a car going down the road and I could then see the brush from his headlights.
The funny thing was, not a single branch hit the house, out front or out back, but it did suck the dryer vent off of the house and sent it down the driveway, lol. The one maple hit the utility pole and leaned it enough to pull the weather head off of the house, but it didn't break any lines, electrical service, phone or cable.
I had some timber cut a couple years ago, and I had them take 3-80/100' white pines off of that bank because they were starting to concern me ........ boy was that a wise choice!
The good thing was, my wife worked nights at the hospital last night, so 1 of our 3 trucks was "outside" the quagmire. Oh and I got a new chainsaw out of the deal too! I have a couple of older saws, a 14" Craftsman and 16" Homelite that you have to fiddle with for 30 minutes for a 5 minute maintenance job. So I called my wife and told her to stop and get me a new saw since this was no simple maintenance job, lol, and she came home with a 20" Stihl
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