When the big storm came through Atlanta Oct. 29th I had a major scare.
About 4:30 am I was woken up from all the noise the storm was making. High winds stuff blowing all over.
My backyard is all trees. Giant pines and hardwoods. No lawn just natural woods.
Kaboom a pine tree was knocked over and it landed on the house. Scared the crap out of me. Hit right next to where I sleep. The backyard deck acted like a blocker but the tree hit the roof and there it laid.
Filed a insurance claim State Farm. Just settled $20k new roof plus other repairs deck, gutters, tree removal, etc.
For days the wind blew. And I am not kidding I kept looking at those trees and kind of freaking out.
There is a 100 year plus old oak that is massive. It would crush a house. It is right in front. A healthy tree but after that storm. I am like I do not want that to happen again. I will leave the oak. But I am taking down two other pines that worry me. One is right next to the one that landed on the house.
Glad you’re okay! That’s scary, as I’ve had it happen a few times on my property. The pines seem to be the worst ... I think their roots are the most shallow and the tall ones really sway.
We had a handful removed two years ago, but I still worry each storm.
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Im glad you’re ok bro. Hope no injuries to anyone.
I was complaining to my wife about the vinyl siding ripping off the condo a few days ago. But the HOA actually covers it so I don’t even have to come out of pocket.
But my annoyance is clearly unimportant compared to what you and others had to deal with the last few days. The storms have been crazy. We still got some people without power in the concord area I believe.
I saw a video of a tree pretty much cutting a house in half. Crazy stuff. Home ownership can definitely be a gift and a curse.
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There were trees down everywhere. Never seen anything like it. Rain for days. Soggy ground and then high winds. Pines came down like straw. Thousands. Traffic lights out power gone for days in some areas.
2020. This year can not end fast enough. Moved back to Atlanta after 5 years in Reno. Rented my home. $20k in damage that the renters caused. Had to have the house painted inside and outside. Had to have all the flooring removed and replaced. (Dog urine) Major headache. All this during March shutdown. $40k in home repair in 2020.
The silver lining is that 10k was out of pocket. Now the house is like brand new.
*nobody was hurt. It could have been way worse.
In the end it all worked out. New carpet and hardwood flooring, house painted inside and out, new roof, and other repairs. Should be good for many moons.
I had to cut down an old, very large oak in my front yard last year. It was about 25ft from my house, but it made an umbrella over the whole house. Over the years, we spent a good bit of money to keep it trimmed and balanced, but it started dying back from the top and dropping branches, excessive amounts of acorns - my front yard was like walking on marbles. Then it dropped a couple limbs - very large, heavy branches - which made it dangerous, but I still resisted having it removed because my wife loved it so much. Then a limb fell on my truck in the driveway, putting it in the body shop for over a week, and costing me over $1200 in removal fees for the tree limb, towing, car rental, and insurance deductibles. So I called my tree guy and told him I needed it removed. He said it was too large for his trucks, and gave me the number for a company that used cranes. It ended up costing $4000 to remove, which hurt. Now I sleep better in wind storms, and I don't miss the raking or gutter cleaning, but I do miss how my house used to look from the street, as opposed to the stark, boxy, post-war bungalow it looks like now.
I didn't think Pines were natural to Atlanta. I hear they grow wild in more northern areas but aren't wild in Ohio, all the ones in central Ohio are imported, I've been told.
Trees! ...
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I can't tell ya to get rid of the Oak, I can't tell you how to trim your yard, it's none of my business, glad you survived.
Is Georgia soil real sandy? Not too firm? I don't know.
This past Sunday during the Browns game, depending on where you live, NEO was hit hard by some pretty wicked wind, rain, etc. We're in a fairly heavily wooded developement. One massive tree in our front yard down, branches from the tree literally torn off, etc, etc. I've heard some gusts reaching close to 90-100mph.
Lost power during the game but I'm ecstatic as today at 10:15a.....
I have seven trees over 80’ tall on my property. Firs, cedars, and pine. I’ve had a lot of work done on them over the years to keep the dead branches and general weight taken down. Allowing the wind to move through them more easily. When we get big winds it’s always a little eery watching them sway. All of them are close enough to hit the house if they were to fall.
When I first bought the place there was a willow tree really close to the house. I built a 6’ cedar fence around my backyard ($$). It wasn’t even a week of having that fence up that the willow fell over at the roots onto the fence. Right by my bedroom. I heard a loud noise that night during the storm but was surprised to see the damage the next morning. It took out a 20’ corner section of the fence but thankfully missed the house. It broke a couple of the posts off too. Meaning I had to re dig post holes and start over. Sucked.
Nature is powerful. Keep your insurance policies paid.
When we bought our current house, there were 7 trees, all but 1 the thickness of (trunk wise) my arm. Those trees are now the thickness/width of my torso. Had to cut 1 down a few years ago, as it was dead.
Only 1 of the trees is near enough to the house to possible cause a problem. I'm thinking of cutting it down because of that, and roots growing into the foundation, etc.
My parents house? They've lived there 52 years. In a wooded area. They can't keep up with the leaves in the fall, so it falls on me and, luckily, my twin nephews and sometimes my niece to do the leaves. But really, they have some HUGE trees, right next to the house. I remember how small they were.............but I'm really thinking of saying "Dad, get them cut down." I certainly don't want them falling on the house, and also, it would make the yard look better as too much shade hurts the grass.....but it would also make leaf removal easier.
The soil is heavy with red clay. When it rains for days the soil get soggy. It holds water only to a point then it just sheds water. The pines have a shallow root system and only spread so far. Not like the oaks where the roots grow far from the tree.
When high winds come and that ground is saturated. The pines fall like straw.
They are very dangerous. Yesterday I had my tree guy take down two more. I still have one right next to the one that fell. No more than 15' from the house. Trunks are around 2' plus in diameter. They stand over 80' tall.
I have a island in the front yard with probably eight trees. Some are pines and now I am paranoid about them although they are probably 50' away.
I do have one giant oak. Hundred year old tree easy. Branches like trees. Over 3' trunk diameter and not more than 15' away. That tree would go right through the house if it fell. But it is healthy and has been there a long time.
The pines cost $800 to $1200 to take down and haul away.
I pay much closer attention after that one landed on the house. Getting a new roof week after next.
My neighbor was complaining because my evergreen bush was blocking her view when she pulled out of her driveway. It was very overgrown.
So I called the tree people to remove it. I wanted to start over in my front gardens. Just take out all the bushes.
Also, I have several trees in the front gardens. I asked the tree people to raise the canopy on them, and remove one tree that was too close to my house.
Let me tell you, raising the canopy makes my house look amazing and classy. The lowest branches are maybe 20 feet up. I highly recommend it if you want a new look for your house. Curb appeal.
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But 2020’s fires have been unprecedented in extent and duration, researchers say. So far, 22% of the vast floodplain — around 3.2 million hectares (see ‘Biodiversity Hotspot Under Threat’) — has succumbed to the flames, according to Renata Libonati, a remote-sensing specialist at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, whose data are being used by firefighters to plan containment. That’s more than twice the area that has burnt in the record-breaking fires in California this year.
Scientists worry that the extreme blazes will profoundly alter the already fragile ecosystem of the Pantanal, and that research programmes investigating the region’s ecology and biodiversity will never recover.
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