At 6:58
yesterday morning, I backed out of the garage and turned around in the driveway, just in time to see the across-the-street neighbor’s tree shake as though a gorilla were fighting in it . it stopped dead but didn’t somehow look right, so I drove around the house (it’s on a corner) to see what was up., and a substantial portion of the tree had fallenj on their garage, the precise moment I was looking at it. I ought to have bought a lotto ticket. Worst part is theyre not home. I don’t think much damage was done, but I hope they check back into it before it is.
But the driving question is Did it make a sound?
That is indeed a rare event. Maybe a lotto ticket is called for. The tree did not drop on you, so your luck must be running high.
One fine summer afternoon–a pleasant day, no real wind, no rain, no storms–I was sitting on the back patio and reading. Something prompted me to look up, and as I watched, one trunk of the box elder tree in the SE corner of the back yard just sort of…fell over. It bounced off the power line in the process, knocking the service box off a neighbor’s house and pulling a wire from the transformer.
It’s like, what do you do?
yep.
Last summer I walked out into the garage and saw, through the little windows in the garage door, nothing but green. Half of our neighbors’ tree had fallen into the driveway. Missed my car by a matter of feet. They made no offer to pay to have it removed, and were simultaneously annoyed that we had it removed on our own terms. (They’re, uh, they’re not very good neighbors.)