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Weird DC area storm -Schools, US Gov closed :) 60 to 70 mp winds

Thebobo

Thebobo

Lifer
Well a day off here but it aint fun sounds like a tornado out there. Watching my trees stress out.
 
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Just got back from work. Wind hasn't started here (NY) in full yet, but I'm sure we'll get a lot of downed trees and lines. Not sure if we're getting snow downstate since the forecasted temp later is around freezing, but if temp does drop it will be a few inches at least.
 
... and in a matter of minutes, it now looks like Narnia outside.

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I have saved about ~$500 in tree removal service for the old, completely dead tree in my back yard from last night alone. Been watching the storms over the last year slowly take this thing down for me. So far so good--everything lands safely and snugly in the back yard. Mostly the main trunk is left with the business ends of the largest, tallest branches taken care of.

I think I'm going to start attaching guy cables to the top and brink it back away from the house, hoping the next big storm will finish the job.
 
zinfamous said:
I have saved about ~$500 in tree removal service for the old, completely dead tree in my back yard from last night alone. Been watching the storms over the last year slowly take this thing down for me. So far so good--everything lands safely and snugly in the back yard. Mostly the main trunk is left with the business ends of the largest, tallest branches taken care of.

I think I'm going to start attaching guy cables to the top and brink it back away from the house, hoping the next big storm will finish the job.
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I got a huge old cherry tree I want to get cabled to prevent it from falling apart, it's so awesome in the spring.
 
Sad day. I lost my 300yr old oak in the wind. That also housed my collection of tree rats. Hope they made the ride down ok...

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:^(
 
FeuerFrei said:
^^^ Them rats is goners for sure.

lol, yeah, right
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Seeing the Wild Hunt was thought to presage some catastrophe such as war or plague, or at best the death of the one who witnessed it.
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This really sucks. That tree was the only thing I liked about this suburban hellhole. Aside from the tree rats, I'm not sure how I'll cut it up. This is a few levels above my woodcutting experience. The trunk has a ~5' *diameter*. I could retire on this job.

On the bright side, I always wondered how the height compared to the distance to the house. It missed by 10', so it was ~60' tall. It also fell on my property, so I can take my time cutting it, and I'll get the wood.

I wonder where the vultures will go? They used it as a sunning spot the last couple years. I'd have a couple dozen in the branches.

Le sigh...
 
Here in Connecticut the wind has been brutal, it's been blowing 30-50 steady with gusts up to 70 for the entire day so far. Good time of the year for that, the trees can survive it better now than they would if the trees had their leaves. The rain has been lighter than expected and so far we've dodged the snow and freezing rain. The really heavy rain has been east of me and the heavy snow has been north and west. We're still getting pelted, but it could have been a lot worse. Another hour or two and most of it should push on through.
 
I woke up 3x in the middle of the night last night. The first time I legit thought my roof was going to come off. I sleep on the top floor and could hear a bunch of creaking as wind howled around. it made me think just how crazy it must have been for people who were in Irma last year considering the winds were up to DOUBLE what we're experiencing in gusts. It's pretty scary sounding when it is that powerful.

Even at work today I'm in a pretty big nearly cube shaped 4 story building, and when you heard the big ass gusts of wind, I swear it felt like the whole building was shaking.

I had no clue to even think about schools being closed today and then I heard coworkers talking about it and then my wife had emailed me telling me that our son's school was closed.

I saw like 3 big trees down on the way home from work, 1 of them blocking the road like less than 1/4 mile from my turn onto my backroad so I had to back track. Thankfully these trees have no leaves or I have a feeling there would be a lot more over turned trees. I just hope I don't lose power.
 
My backyard faces eastish, the winds were coming NWish so itslike is tornado at my back door but I have an awning the sticks out about 4 feet with a couple bird feeders hanging. So there were a couple brave finches on the thistle feeder in "relative calm" and then all of a sudden a gust comes up and the birds go zooming away (not flying) lol.
 
Thebobo said:
Bummer. Love old tall trees but they can be killers.
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I'm kinda fixating on this, but on my drive up the road I'm taking inventory of the skyline, and something isn't right... "Oh fuck!" Get home and my second favorite thing is down(first favorite is my sick cat). Seemed like that tree would always be there. It was here before this country was a country, and was the reason my father picked this lot. Might give me a chance to learn wood carving, cause I'm not sure I'll be able to remove the trunk. I might just carve interesting designs in in it, and leave it where it lays, cause I definitely won't be paying anyone to do it.
 
This storm really came out of nowhere. We got about 5" of heavy wet snow so far and it's still falling.
 
We actually have no rain. This morning when I was driving to work it was snowing a little bit but like flurries mixed with rain. It was blowing sideways though and it cleared up by like 8am.

I have a sports car (G37S) and it's pretty heavy and somewhat low to the ground, and I could feel the wind blowing my car on the way to work this morning too.
 
I hate wind storms. I'll take a couple feet of snow, but high winds just stress me out, I'm always scared something happens to the house. In the past few years we seem to get these weird wind burst storms. It sounds like a semi crashing into the house every time one hits and I can actually hear the whole house shift. We had one a few days ago, lasted a good 2 days. Maybe every 15 minutes or so it would hit. I'm not sure what's worse from a structural standpoint, sustained wind or constant bursts. Kinda like a hammer drill vs normal drill. The bursts are probably worse.

Sucks about your tree, lxskllr!
 
zinfamous said:
I have saved about ~$500 in tree removal service for the old, completely dead tree in my back yard from last night alone. Been watching the storms over the last year slowly take this thing down for me. So far so good--everything lands safely and snugly in the back yard. Mostly the main trunk is left with the business ends of the largest, tallest branches taken care of.

I think I'm going to start attaching guy cables to the top and brink it back away from the house, hoping the next big storm will finish the job.
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Picked up the devastation this last weekend, and found about 2 dozen 3/4-1 inch or more diameter snapped, pointy branches embedded in the yard, some up to 2 feet deep (no exaggeration) at wicked angles. Amazing there were no impaled animals to be found...or humans.

Must have been like a tornado of lawn darts in the killzone that was my backyard.
 
zinfamous said:
Picked up the devastation this last weekend, and found about 2 dozen 3/4-1 inch or more diameter snapped, pointy branches embedded in the yard, some up to 2 feet deep (no exaggeration) at wicked angles. Amazing there were no impaled animals to be found...or humans.

Must have been like a tornado of lawn darts in the killzone that was my backyard.
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^ Buffy movie of the future
 
zinfamous said:
Picked up the devastation this last weekend, and found about 2 dozen 3/4-1 inch or more diameter snapped, pointy branches embedded in the yard, some up to 2 feet deep (no exaggeration) at wicked angles. Amazing there were no impaled animals to be found...or humans.

Must have been like a tornado of lawn darts in the killzone that was my backyard.
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I played golf today, the course was filled with embedded branches like that. Hundreds of them, a bunch looked large enough and were buried deep enough that they could have easily caused some serious damage to animals and humans.
 
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