Heavy rain and wind here tonight. Close call! Better call the pros in as I have a few more trees ( well, weedy poplars to be more precise) that look like they are destined for a similar fate. Needless to say the car will be moving!
Damn thats close!! I Have a buddy who was drivin his 66 mustang home last year in a bad storm and he was doing about 40 and a tree fell in front of him and i think you can figure out what happened after that.
Hurricane season is here, and my poor old car has to sit outside. Did I mention that I'm in the hurricane belt?
Here in southwest Missouri, right now (at 10:03 pm Wed), severe thunder storm watches and warnings as well as tornado watches and warnings. You're lucky nothing hit your car.......... You may have seen what happened to one of mine about a year ago due to big winds and saturated ground....... Now have another roof and doors to install.
Ouch! man that sucks! Ironically it wasn't that windy here. I think it was a combination of a good soaking and a weak crotch on the tree. I have an acre of woods 300 feet from my house and poplars and cottonwoods just fall like dominos pretty regularly. I have pushed some of them over with my 8N on occasion. Dirty nasty trees but they are good windbreaks.
I was up at my aunt and uncle's in central WI last week and he had poplars snapping all over the place. A bunch just missed his outbuilding. He said they have about an 18 year life span and snap about halfway up in heavy wind. It doesn't help that he has a mess of Pileated Woodpeckers that are boring holes through 'em.
You described exactly what happened to that one. Had a Pileated take out a Mountain Ash at the back of my property, shame it was nice tree but obviously buggy! I cut the tree apart tonight. Can't find a scratch on the Merc, phew!
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