(Okay, let's try this a second time. For some reason, the first posting went in without any text.)
Well, for those of you who aren't in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, we're right now being battered by a nasty rainstorm -- lots of rain, lots of wind. It's been going on for about 24 hours, and is project to keep going for another 48 or so.
And it just knocked down a fir tree in our yard that was located about five feet from our house.
We're okay, the house is okay. The tree was positioned such and the wind blowing such, that it fell down along the side of the house, the trunk coming no closer than about 18 inches at any point. But it came down in two stages, when its branches got snagged on the roof. It's all the way down now, and we have a tree top in the patio, but it seems to be stable and not prone to movement, even when pushed by the monster gusts of wind we're getting. We'll probably hear branches moving still for a while, but we don't seem to be in any danger of losing any windows or anything at this point. I think.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled Saturday night.
ETA: Oh, and we had a little blackout between the first partial fall of the tree, when it initially caught on the roof, and the final fall to the ground. Obviously the power's back, but I really wish the lights would stop flickering.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Well, for those of you who aren't in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, we're right now being battered by a nasty rainstorm -- lots of rain, lots of wind. It's been going on for about 24 hours, and is project to keep going for another 48 or so.
And it just knocked down a fir tree in our yard that was located about five feet from our house.
We're okay, the house is okay. The tree was positioned such and the wind blowing such, that it fell down along the side of the house, the trunk coming no closer than about 18 inches at any point. But it came down in two stages, when its branches got snagged on the roof. It's all the way down now, and we have a tree top in the patio, but it seems to be stable and not prone to movement, even when pushed by the monster gusts of wind we're getting. We'll probably hear branches moving still for a while, but we don't seem to be in any danger of losing any windows or anything at this point. I think.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled Saturday night.
ETA: Oh, and we had a little blackout between the first partial fall of the tree, when it initially caught on the roof, and the final fall to the ground. Obviously the power's back, but I really wish the lights would stop flickering.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.