We could hear rain and wind all night. Boy could we hear it! We’d look out windows on all four sides of the house and all we could see was shadows of tree tops whipping in the wind, wildly whipping in the wind!
Dawn finally came. While Jim slept, Linda tiptoed around the house looking out each window to see what damage we’d sustained. West side, nothing! East side, nothing but a lot of twigs and leaves, and the south side we were afraid of, nothing! No trees on the south side so I wasn’t afraid to look there! Well wouldn’t you know it, this was the side I saw the damage!
However! It was not our damage! From my bathroom window it appeared that two branches had fallen off of the large, majestic tree in our neighbor’s backyard. The yard had recently been groomed since our neighbor’s have relocated and their home is for sale. I didn’t think anything of just two branches falling until Jim told me there was a branch blocking the alley on the other side of that swing set and sandbox.
Since the branch appeared (to me) to be on the fence side, I really didn’t think he knew what he was talking about!
Until! I walked around to the alley and saw this! Holy Cow! It even took out a telephone drop that you can see hanging on the right hand side of the picture!
. . . and this! That’s some branch! Nobody could accuse it of being a twig! That’s for sure!
The branch is so long it goes from their swing set into and out of our hedge! It was a long time ago that this branch even began to grow and now it’s life is over. sad.
Irene took out this branch and along with it a telephone drop and a fence, too. It doesn’t appear that the swing set was damaged, though.
If you look hard at the middle of the picture you can see where that branch split off of the tree. That’s a large split! We were aware that this was not our problem, but this branch was blocking the alley and there are people who use this alley. We have on ocassion since we have a parking place beside our shed. Jim said it would be so easy just to cut the branches that were blocking it, but I told him, we shouldn’t unless we had permission. My theory was somebody may already be contracted to do so, and if they came out to do it they homeowners would still have to pay for it! Jim agreed.
As I was downloading the pictures the phone rang and it was the homeowner! She explained her sister had called her and she didn’t know when somebody would be out to clear everything, but it would be done. I then told her what Jim had relayed to me and she was appreciative and said to go ahead. Cutters in hand, Jim went to work!
Good deed done for the day! Absentee homeowner happy. Well, as happy as you can be about storm damage to a home you are no longer living in, anyway!
Great blog post!
WOW nothing like a “Good Ol” summer storm!