Excitement on Our Street

I heard the wind kick up last night.  I wakened and thought about my plants on the porch.  I thought especially about the fuchsia and wished I'd brought it in already.  But I never thought of getting up and doing it in the night.

This morning when I started to take the trash out to the curb, I discovered that a tree was down in our street, just below our house.  It's not the whole tree, just one third of it, but it was a big, old, maple tree.  It also pulled down the electric wire going into the neighbor's house.  Because there was a wire down, neither the school maintenance people nor the firemen could do anything about removing the tree until the Penelec people had come to take care of the wire.

That's been done now and the chain saws are going to get the tree cleared out of the road.  There was a two hour school delay because of this tree.

My husband had talked to me about this tree.  He thought it ought to be taken down several years ago, but it's not on our property.  The split where it broke shows a lot of deadness inside but there were still lots of green leaves.  It's sad to see this old giant go.  I think that since so much of it broke off, the rest of it will be cut down.  What a wonderful gift from God that it came down when no one was around to be hurt, and it didn't fall on the house.  It's created an inconvenience but no real damage.

My porch plants were all fine.  My back door neighbor lost her two arch trellises. They both blew down, completely.

Posted by: NJ on 9/29/2005 9:41:11 AM , 4 comments