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What's up with this wind?

daveSanborn

daveSanborn

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LOL. Earl/Shmerl.... what a disappointment. I was hoping for something exciting to happen, but it appears not to be the case. It's getting a little breezy, but still no rain. I'll be sure to snap some pictures if a tree happens to land on my house.
 
It's just another excuse for the media to get everyone riled up and stimulate the local economy by causing a rush on supplies!
 
Still a good enough reason to have a hurricane party!

I forget what year it was.. when a hurricane came through Havelock. Was our first summer there. I was hoping for some action... but nothing. Some power outage in Havelock, so-so winds. Yet New Bern had power.

Same when I was in Pensacola for hurricane Danny (I think that was it). Lots of wind, rain, branches down... but didn't stop me from driving to the bar at night!

Either way, stay safe! Like one of my fav comedians said.... It's not that the wind is blowing. Its WHAT the wind is blowing. :lol
 
That hurricane looks drunk, can't stay in a straight line. Batton down the hatches Dave. We'll be in Asheville for the MCA show tomorrow - Labor Day and the forcast is great!
Jon
 
"daveSanborn" said:
I haven't overly concerned myself with this storm, but I'll be damned if it doesn't look as if it's coming right at me....
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maybe it's being drawn towards the new stripper pole. think maybe it's acting like a "hurricane rod"??
 
Morning update:

Rain = 0.25 inches

Wind = nothing over 20-25MPH


But... yesterday when I got home from the office my son and I were walking around the property just to make sure everything was stowed away in case high winds hit us. Mission accomplished, we sat down on some lawn chairs in front of the garage to watch the wind blowing through the trees... kinda just winding down from another day of work. My son commented on a LARGE pine tree that was swaying in the wind and we calculated what damage it would cause if it ever snapped. As we were looking at the pine tree I noticed another tree directly behind the swaying pine looked "kinda funny". WTF? Sure enough, a 100' maple tree had snapped and was precariously leaning at a 45 degree angle caught up in some surrounding trees. Upon closer examination the tree's demise was due to some weird disease..... where the lower portion of the trunk had rotted, but the top 80' of the tree appeared perfectly normal. Of course the tree was leaning directly over my neighbor's house. If it hadn't got itself tangled up in some surrounding trees it would have surely crushed though the roof of his living room.

With chainsaw and the winch on my Jeep we were able to finish cutting where the snap occured and quickly "yank" the falling tree down and away from his house. We got the tree all sectioned and we'll add it to the woodpile after work tonight.

I guess I should count my blessings as it could have turned out really badly. Before attempting to get the tree situation resolved I got ahold of my State Farm agent and learned that I would be liable for any damages to my neighbors house due to the tree being dead/diseased. I was under the impression that ALL falling trees were not my problem, but that's ONLY if they're "healthy".
 
Yeah, everyone knows that you need to give your trees a regular checkup just for these reasons :eek:mg


WTF are you supposed to do? Go around the property and check every friggin tree? Maybe if you live on a postage stamp with 5 trees that you can touch out your window, but on larger parcels, that's ridiculous.
 
WTF are you supposed to do? Go around the property and check every friggin tree?
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Apparently yes. This subject was briefly discussed with my agent as the tree in question appeared perfectly normal. Full growth on top and everything, but the lower portion of the trunk was internally rotting. It appeared fine on the outside/bark. When we were running the chainsaw through it after it was down, carpenter ants were spewing out of the trunk. HTF are you supposed to know that a tree is rotting from the inside out without cutting it down? F&^ing insurance companies.
 
Dave, I could post some pics but don't feel like it, but I had the same thing in my yard, also a maple. Cut the tree down over July 4th, and it was one of those deals where the tree was about 8' or so from the corner of the house and I was concerned about roots getting under the foundation, so we dropped it. Limbed it and topped it, situation normal. Dropped the trunk, and lo and behold the middle 18" of a 32" tree was hollow. Holy Crap! Full of ants too just like you had. Looked totally normal. Where that tree was, and as tall as it was, odds were it was going into my kids bedrooms, neighbors kids bedrooms, or the street. Those aren't very good odds for it landing in a safe place and not damaging property.

I have tree hugger of a neighbor on the other side who called me a tree killer. I showed him the hollow area and he said "well, it could have fallen over tomorrow or 10 years from now, you don't know." I wanted to smack him.

Now that we've had our hurricane scare, I'm really glad we dropped it when we did.
 
i've got a maple in my front yard that i think is in the same condition. i hear thats a pretty normal thing for maples.
 
I've got a fair amount of wind...must be the re-fried beans I had for lunch.
 
It's amazing the things you learn on this damn computer. I had a tree at the back corner of my garage that the wife and I decided to take down last summer. As the topped it and took it down piece by piece, it became clear that we had made a great decision. The bottom was rotting from the inside out and was totally infested with carpenter ants. Friggin amazing. No sign of any damage from the outside.
 
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