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[bob95065]

So we bought a beat-up house July 2013. I have been busy cleaning up the neglected 2-acre lot ever since.

We had a decent storm the last couple days and I was anticipating the power going out. Last night at about 1 AM it finally happened.

I left the house at 5 AM to go to work. I found a madrone tree fell out of our lot onto the power lines. The power lines were completely severed, the pole was at a 45° angle and the tree waas held in the air by the cavle lines and our road water pump house.

It took PG&E 14 hours to straighten the pole, fix the lines and get the power back on. I wound up with over a cord of madrone. The trunk is about 20" at the ground.

The tree barber--chaired from the dirt about 10' up. Davey Tree responded with PG&E. They used the PG&E crane to lift the trunk after cutting the branches. It should burn well in 2016 when I'll get to it in the woodshed.

 

[Applesister]

Grab a leaf and a split to post for posterity. We dont see much of it posted on here.
I heard California needed that rainstorm. Looks pretty there.

 

[Soundchasm]

It's hard to "like" that post since it caused so much trouble, but hopefully every cloud has a silver lining, and some evening in the future you'll look at that glowing stove glass and recall...

 

[bob95065]

It was a pain in the neck but better than going to work

 

[bob95065]

Grab a leaf and a split to post for posterity. We dont see much of it posted on here.
I heard California needed that rainstorm. Looks pretty there.

It's going to be a little bit. We have more rain foretasted and the neighbor across the street wants me to pay for the fence the tree hit. I'm meeting with him tomorrow.

 

[Pennsyltucky Chris]

It's going to be a little bit. We have more rain foretasted and the neighbor across the street wants me to pay for the fence the tree hit. I'm meeting with him tomorrow.

He sounds charming.

 

[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

It's going to be a little bit. We have more rain foretasted and the neighbor across the street wants me to pay for the fence the tree hit. I'm meeting with him tomorrow.

I don't think your responsible for that fence, at least that's the way it works here in nj....call your insurance agent before you talk to your neighbor.....

 

[edge-of-the-woods]

I don't think your responsible for that fence, at least that's the way it works here in nj....call your insurance agent before you talk to your neighbor.....

Seconded on that! Also it sounds like the tree fell onto the power lines, no? How did it go from being on the power lines to being on the fence? If