Sunday, August 02, 2009

If a Tree Falls in Your Yard...Who Cleans it Up?

About 15 minutes after hearing a loud CRACK outside, we heard another CRACK and (felt) a THUMP. We now have 1/2 a tree less than before....





It covered half the road...



I used the Kidlet as a size reference...



It even crushed the electrical box in the ditch in front of our house. It's hard to see in this pic, but trust me, it's rather smooshed



After the fire dept. sent some people down to free up with road with their chainsaw, the electric company had to send people out to move the gigantic trunk off the box and replace it.



Now we're waiting for the country road people to come and chop up what's left, AND evaluate what's left of the tree still standing to see if it should be removed before it falls too. They better remove it...when it goes it's going to cover the entire road and take out the phone/cable lines too.

It so so weird to look out our front window and seeing the field across the street instead of just more maple trees. I can't wait for the rest of that tree to be gone too!

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