[Leica] Bad Day

[lea at whinydogpress.com (lea)]

Tina,

Sad as I am to say it, I agree that cutting your tree is a good idea. My
sister just lost a HUGE limb off her oak tree in a wind storm. The good
thing is that it only fell on a car...not a house. The damage was
unreal.

KC is known for its wind storms and even more notably its ice storms.
I've gone at huge iffy looking branches armed with nothing more than a
bow saw in an effort to avoid the potential damage of falling limbs.
I've never been sorry.

It hurts to cut down a tree but a damaged tree is danger waiting to
happen.

Lea

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 7:57 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Bad Day


> Tina,
> Cut The Tree Down Now.  My house has been hit by a tree that I loved
but
> had gotten a little senile.  Clean up was no fun.  SonC. spent how
much
> money fixing his house when the tree hit it.
>
> We had a storm through two years ago that wiped out some 100 year old
> oaks. They had been damaged by two years of drought followed by one
year
> of flood that rotted the roots.  It cost a friend of mine $10,000 in
> crane fees just to get one magnificent oak off her roof.  Then she
spent
> a few hundred thousand dollars to repair the house down to the
> foundation.  Yes, insurance paid the bills, but nine months in an
> apartment was not pleasant.
>
> An oak that falls when it is still alive is a huge heavy lever that
> smashes things until it hits ground; rafters, walls, second floor
> joists, first floor walls, first floor joists, and the foundation
walls
> above ground.
>
> Please create some nice firewood and enjoy many pleasant fall evenings
> by a cheery fire.  Oak can make a pretty good BBQ if you mix in some
> hickory or mesquite.
>
> Don
> dorysrus@mindspring.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf
> Of Tina Manley
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 7:33 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Bad Day
>
> At 08:23 PM 7/29/2004, you wrote:
>
> >Not a good day for our neighbors just back from Hawaii! And, to boot,
> >it's a tree owned by the City.
> >
> >Not high art but definately good for a racing pulse.
> >
> >Adam
>
> Ouch!  It's amazing to see how few roots the tree pulled up.  I guess
> they
> snapped off.  We have a huge oak tree in our front yard that has a
spot
> of
> oak-tree-rot on the side.  The county extension agent says nothing can
> be
> done to cure the tree.  I'm afraid every time we have a storm that it
> will
> crash into my office here on the second floor.  I would hate to lose
the
>
> ancient tree that shades our whole yard, but we may have to have it
cut
> down - especially after seeing photos like this.  My tree is about
twice
>
> that big!
>
> Tina
>
>
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
>
>
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