A 50 foot tree fell on my house.

At 4:00 am last night. Damn those straight line winds!!!!!

My neighbors tree crashed through our wooden fence killed a few tall shrubs before it took out part of my front porch.

It's a mess, but thankfully did not hit the house proper...no leaks inside the attic, but SHIT DOES MY FRONT PORCH AND YARD LOOK LIKE CRAP WITH MY NEIGHBOR'S UGLY HACKBERRY THE ENTIRE FUCKING TREE... IS IN MY YARD AND PORCH!

I hate insurance people... why aren't they there to take your call on a holiday? Storms occur on holidays too!

Tomorrow is going to be hell clean up day. But yes, I'm thankful the tree didn't land 10 feet more west and it would have taken out my living room and kitchen.

Damn. :grr:

Goodluck with the clean-up.

:hi:

Yes I am thankful, this time as in the many others here. I absolutely hate living here. I've lived in this area 10 years now and once or twice a year there are tornados or straight-lines that tear everything apart or kill people very near my home.

Whew.

living quarters are intact and no one was hurt. During a storm in 1994, a huge oak fell squarely through the center of the house behind me on the next street: thankfully no one was hurt, but it seemed like years before the insurance claims were settled and the house was completely rebuilt.

called and was very nice to offer to come over and chainsaw the tree (he owns a grass-cutting service), but the tree has already done the damage. The upper branches are basically just leaning on my kitchen roof and porch.

I took digital photos and sent them to the insurance people. But damn I can barely open my front door!

My parents live on the coast in NC and lost 90 pine trees during those awful hurricanes in the 90's, but they had trucks coming from out of state to help...so everyone helped everyone drag crap to the street.

My home was the only one damaged in the neighborhood and I don't plan on expending any effort unpaid for.

Make sure they cannot say the damage was not because of the storm.

Our area got hit yesterday evening. I helped a friend chainsaw the mess in his yard today.

It's such a pain in the ass to clean it up in the rain and possibly more storms with lightning!

The weird thing is...I had a Tree man give me an estimate last week to limb up some of my huge oaks in the yard. He was scheduled to come tomorrow afternoon to do the work. I guess he's getting more business than bargained for and it also made me come to the decision after surveying the destruction that...it can wait.

Heavy rain with severe thunderstorms and tornados Thursday/Friday and a second round yesterday evening.

One 40-foot tree missed my car by 10 feet.

I even heard it when it fell. It was a sustained wind noise, and there was no crashing sound when it finally touched ground. Well, not really ground. Its limbs just gently rested on the edge of the roof. Little damage to the house, but it cost a great deal to remove. I remember when I was getting estimates for the tree removal I proved I could hang with the best of Florida crackers. Apparently some trees have commercial value, so that effects the price. The tree guy on the phone asked, "Is it a Live Oak?" And I replied, "Well, it was alive before it fell."

Thanks for that story friend!

Hackberrys are on the opposite end of the spectrum from Live Oaks.

I felt the soft thud at 4:00, but when I looked out back where I expected the oak to fall it was standing. Didn't look out front until 8:00 am.

But yes, it was a soft "push" sound then "woosh" sound.

Much better than the "crack" "crash" "SPLINTER" "gush" "death" sounds I could have encountered. Once again.

Thanks for the memory.

We have a souvenir, too. A branch sticking straight up through our roof over our bed. Freaky looking and feeling.

be thankful no one was hurt but your porch, and even though they are asspains, the ins idiots will come through sooner or later

Try a hundred-foot tree!

http://www.eskimo.com/~jwalley/timber/

(Fortunately, it just missed being a lot worse, too.)

:hug:

Insurance people can go suck eggs. Don't even get me started on my recent flooding issues.