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Post by onebentarrow on Mar 21, 2019 8:25:49 GMT -5
   No one hurt. Only attic damage.got it all buttoned up so no rain damage. Adjuster comming today along with my contractor so every thing ts pretty much doing good considering. There was no wind when the tree fell and it was a live tree. I was inside and it shook the house so bad my first thought was we are having an earthquake. The shaking accully knocked stuff of the bathroom shelves. |
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Post by htownhunter on Mar 21, 2019 8:35:29 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that at least no one was hurt.
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Post by esshup on Mar 21, 2019 8:41:10 GMT -5
Yipes!!! I'm glad that nobody was hurt and that you got it buttoned back up before any more damage was done by the rain. It looks like the tree woudln't have stayed alive much longer.
High water table in that area?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 8:42:43 GMT -5
Bummer, glad no one hurt and will be fixed soon. Hopefully, the shake didn't break anything else.
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Post by Woody Williams on Mar 21, 2019 9:07:38 GMT -5
Oh my!
Glad no one was hurt. Homes can be repaired.
I hope that your insurance company does right by you..
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Post by featherduster on Mar 21, 2019 9:13:58 GMT -5
I guess your kind of lucky that it hit the house right over that overhang above the deck and at the outside edge of the house.
It would have been worse if it fell over a room and did interior damage.
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Post by dbd870 on Mar 21, 2019 10:28:07 GMT -5
Bummer!
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Post by Huntnfreak on Mar 21, 2019 10:29:53 GMT -5
WOW...Glad everyone's safe!!
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Post by onebentarrow on Mar 21, 2019 11:18:00 GMT -5
Yipes!!! I'm glad that nobody was hurt and that you got it buttoned back up before any more damage was done by the rain. It looks like the tree woudln't have stayed alive much longer. High water table in that area? No 45 feet up on hill above lake with sandy soil |
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Post by bill9068 on Mar 21, 2019 11:18:34 GMT -5
Scary, glad your ok.
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Post by onebentarrow on Mar 21, 2019 11:20:23 GMT -5
Oh my! Glad no one was hurt. Homes can be repaired. I hope that your insurance company does right by you.. I worked with them about 10 years ago when an other big tree came down thru my shead and they did me right then so if the same I will not have any qualms this time |
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Post by onebentarrow on Mar 21, 2019 11:31:32 GMT -5
I guess your kind of lucky that it hit the house right over that overhang above the deck and at the outside edge of the house. It would have been worse if it fell over a room and did interior damage. All in all I feel I got very luckey with what COULD have happened. The tree fell in the best possible spot other than falling the other direction,and the limb that hit roof was hollow at that point and broke into so it did not continue on thru the house. The tree just missed my kabota tractor by 2 feet. Was suposto have heavy rain yesterday and it only sprinkled so no water damage. Contractor showed up 1 1/2 hrs after to start temp repairs and was dune last evening. NO ONE WAS HURT! just had to change pants. Few other luckey things with it too so I guess my stars were all lined up and I was being watched over. I am very grateful I got so luckey. I was a little scatterbrained and stressed yesterday but not so much today |
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Post by beermaker on Mar 21, 2019 11:35:41 GMT -5
We just moved from a scenic home in the woods that was damaged three times by trees. Twice during storms and once was a healthy looking tree that had a hollow area that gave out. After the third time, my insurance guy advised me to not turn in another claim or I would likely be dropped.
I have sworn that any future home sites would be cleared of all trees that could possibly hit the house.
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Post by onebentarrow on Mar 21, 2019 11:39:06 GMT -5
We just moved from a scenic home in the woods that was damaged three times by trees. Twice during storms and once was a healthy looking tree that had a hollow area that gave out. After the third time, my insurance guy advised me to not turn in another claim or I would likely be dropped. I have sworn that any future home sites would be cleared of all trees that could possibly hit the house. I live in 5 acres of woods over looking a lake. I know the risks but would not give it up for anything. |
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Post by esshup on Mar 21, 2019 12:05:12 GMT -5
We just moved from a scenic home in the woods that was damaged three times by trees. Twice during storms and once was a healthy looking tree that had a hollow area that gave out. After the third time, my insurance guy advised me to not turn in another claim or I would likely be dropped. I have sworn that any future home sites would be cleared of all trees that could possibly hit the house. Yep!! A client built a huge pole barn with an apartment above it and didn't want to remove trees near it. Last year he had to pay a tree removal service that had a bucket truck to remove 6 trees that died and could have fallen on it. There are still probably 30 to 40 more close enough to hit it if they fell, but he knows more than I do. With Oak Wilt disease starting to hit this area, and there being a large number of Red/Pin Oaks near the building, he will have issues in the near future. I've been telling him that he needs to take down the 50 dead trees that are around his shooting lane and 16'-20' metal shed there. I marked them 3 years ago, but he wants to take one down at a time, cut it up into 16" lengths, split and stack it before moving on to the next tree. So far, none have been touched by a chainsaw. The last 2 wind events that happened here had 3 of those trees snap off about 10'-15' above the ground, but luckily they all fell away from anything. One is still hung up in the surrounding trees. There are a number of Big Tooth Aspen trees roughly 12" dbh that are dead and those are the ones that snapped. I guess that's what insurance is for, but like was mentioned above, insurance will only do so much, then you have to take some responsibility. |
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Post by jjas on Mar 21, 2019 14:21:28 GMT -5
We just moved from a scenic home in the woods that was damaged three times by trees. Twice during storms and once was a healthy looking tree that had a hollow area that gave out. After the third time, my insurance guy advised me to not turn in another claim or I would likely be dropped. I have sworn that any future home sites would be cleared of all trees that could possibly hit the house. I have a neighbor that has a huge dead ash tree (60 feet tall) behind his house. Last year a limb fell off of it and tore a huge hole in the roof. His insurance company replaced the roof and repaired the interior damage, but the tree was left standing. A few months ago, another limb fell onto the new roof. The guy's insurance company paid to repair that...and left the tree standing. It's only a matter of time before that huge tree takes out his house or the house next to him. Why he won't take that tree down is beyond me. |
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Post by Sasquatch on Mar 21, 2019 15:20:40 GMT -5
Yikes! Hope the insurance goes well.
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Post by beermaker on Mar 21, 2019 17:07:40 GMT -5
We just moved from a scenic home in the woods that was damaged three times by trees. Twice during storms and once was a healthy looking tree that had a hollow area that gave out. After the third time, my insurance guy advised me to not turn in another claim or I would likely be dropped. I have sworn that any future home sites would be cleared of all trees that could possibly hit the house. I live in 5 acres of woods over looking a lake. I know the risks but would not give it up for anything. You have literally just described a dream come true for me. I'd rather have a lake to manage for fishing than a woods for hunting. However, I'd still remove any tree within striking distance of the house! |
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Post by oldhoyt on Mar 25, 2019 13:49:59 GMT -5
You say it was a live tree, but the roots in the photo make it look like the tree was in very poor health.
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Post by onebentarrow on Mar 25, 2019 16:41:13 GMT -5
You say it was a live tree, but the roots in the photo make it look like the tree was in very poor health. There was no indacation on the out side. The tree has had a good canopy every year. When you can see it up close there was live wood all the way around the base, but your assumptions are correct. The interior of the tree was very deteriorated. It was not hollow but the wood was not full strength . It also had a white mold on some of the wood. That part will not be good enough for the in house woodburner. I do not think the bad wood significantly contributed to the fall because when you look at the root ball all the roots on one side pulled out of the ground intact. The part that broke is the side it fell toward and that sideheld tight for a time because there is about a 5 foot split going up the trunk where it held until there was too much pressure forcing it to snap off. I hope this uneducated diagnosis of the tree helps you under stand the comment of (a live tree) Onebentarrow |
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