Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Oops... "Acts of God"... they can suck

So a few weeks ago we had an incident of large branch (200+ pounds and 12' long) falling from a dead tree in our backyard. Funny thing is, it was only mildly breezy that evening. When it hit the ground it sounded like an cherry bomb going off, followed by what my wife said sounded like someone trying to break into the house as the smaller branches exploded and sprayed the backside of the house.

We were lucky. No damage.

So today I get a text message from my wife with this image attached: 

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That's right, one of our trees fell onto our neighbor's house and the sad part is that it wasn't the dead tree mentioned above. Now the two trees that were downhill from the one that fell are leaning more, looking like they might come down as well. So now we have three trees needing to come down, including the dead one, one to clean up, a fence to repair and trying to console our neighbors who lost the backside of a nice little shop/shed structure and could have damage to their roof. Now we have to talk with our landlord about removing the three trees. Scary stuff, just glad that nobody was hurt.

Tree removal - $0

Fence Replacement - $0

Roof Repair - $0

Shop Repair - $0

Insurance Deductable - $500

Everyone's Safety - Priceless.

Keep yourselves safe and make sure to watch the sky... it seems to be falling more and more frequently.