Turn off the fan!

[FinsnFur]

Holy crap

[Hawks Feather]

TOTALLY agree!

[FinsnFur]

Yeah lately it's been worse than normal here for some reason.
Back in November we had a night of 50 mph sustained winds and it was pretty sketchy up here on the hill.
Thats the night it toppled this baby over behind my house.



Thursday last week we had 70 mph winds up here and let me tell you, I've lived here for 25 years and I've never been as scared of my house flying apart as I was THAT night. I have no idea what was banging but something on this ole place was banging up top most of the night. And the wind kept me up for hours sounding like a tornado going between the houses and it never let up or slowed.
I woke up to deafening silence at 3:00am  when the power went out. I thought sure as shit the tree in my front yard went down, but it should have landed on the house by the wind direction that night.
As I lay in bed wondering if I should try to go back to sleep or get up, the pitch black rooms in the front of the house filled with flashing red lights and white emergency vehicle spot lights scanned the front of my house filling the place with a burning white light like you cant imagine.
Now I'm freaking out.
Shoot out of bed to see power lines flopping around out front of the house like carp in hot flooded grass.
Turns out the guy across the street had a tree go down and take the lines with it. The tree was so tall it laid across the road and the tip just touched the bottom step of the house on the other side of the street.
It was tough to take pics with so many lights flashing but...



Next pic was from his house later that day.








I got a tree JUST like that in my yard. Big ole Spruce like 70 or 80 foot tall. Thats probably what was banging last week as the overhanging limbs pounded on my roof with the 70 mph winds.
I asked the guy across the street if his tree was sick, or cracked or distressed at all. He says not that he knew of.
That was all I needed to hear lol. I'm having people come out this week to look at mine and bid on taking it down.
I'm done worrying about that sonofabitch falling on my house. It's gotta go.

[Okanagan]

Whew!  Bad night.  I'd hate to do it but would take the tall spruce down just like you.  Wish you could lop off the top third before tonight!

Around here, close growing forest trees protect each other from wind and rarely does one of the big ones go down.  But cut a block of that forest in a clear-cut or even a house lot and the ones left on the edge of the cut are exposed to wind.  They have grown in that spot for 100-200 years, in a windbreak of many trees and they never developed the root system to stand alone against wind.  Those trees are the ones most likely to go down.

Nearly every far western clear-cut is a mess of down trees from the edge of the open back into the trees for 20-30 yards.

Hope you keep safe till you get the big tree down!




 

[Hawks Feather]

The good thing is you will have more firewood. Not a good way to get it though.


Early July 4th fireworks compliments of the wind. This was shot by a pastor that I know.
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[nastygunz]

Wowzer! That big old tree trunk stump looks like it has some significant rot going on in there where it broke. Leave your tree stump about 6 feet tall grab your chainsaw and put some nice bird nesting spots in it.