Microburst
 

Hit my neighborhood around 4:30pm. Had two 80-100 foot black locust trees come down.... Fortunately a black cherry cushioned the blow as they fell on the high tension wires, pole, and all the power and communication wires below. Crews just left after five hours of clean up. I got them all the pizza and drinks they could eat. Did a great job. Now I get to hire someone to clean up the rest of the mess. Fire chief said he'd be by with his splitter for some firewood. We'll see what I have been left with in the morning, after I get in from fishing... Insurance will cover about 500 bucks worth, I think. Don't know if that is per tree, or per incident. But our municipal light and tree department employees did a great job for me.... especially considering I had just gotten a bid for three thousand bucks to take the big locust down!!!!! That was going to boom it over the house to avoid the high tension wires.... So I got somewhat lucky.

that's some tough wood Locust is...

always something....

What is it with this summer's weather: we got hit by a microburst 3 weeks ago? Hail, trees down across power lines, power out for 5 hrs, had to drink all my beer stocks before they got warm! :)
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Think of all the plugs you could have made :hee:

Glad to hear no real damage or injuries though....:kewl:

Got hit with one last night about 7 PM. Inch and 1/2 of hail
on the ground, looked like an ice storm.

This morning it looks like it's the middle of October with all
the leaves on the lawn.

Got nailed at the Philly airport Wednesday night...really intense.

-spence

It's called climate change
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Microburst hit St Louis Airport in 2001 destroyed 100's of cars in the parking lots with hail....

Who needs locust wood?

had one come through our backyard into the neighbor's several years ago. I was half asleep on the couch and looked out to see the trees bent in half, violently swaying back and forth. The weather channel showed up to document it. lots of damage to the neighbor's house, deck collapsed. We got lucky...

Be very careful putting a claim in through your homeowners. I put a small 5 k claim in a while back and my company dropped me at renewal time. Nobody would insure me because of the claim and I got stuck with the mass fair plan. My insurance tripled. I would have never put the claim in if I knew that's how it was gonna go. Be careful and ask your agent what they think the possibilities of getting dropped are



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Ross- If you have any black cherry that needs to come down due to damage I would love a piece big enough to turn a bowl or two

Only claiming for clean up of fallen trees. No other damage.

I'll save some for you, Chris. Not a real big diameter though.