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My house almost got crushed!!!!
So i was sitting in my kitchen, eating eggs and toast when all of a sudden i hear this crackling sound outside and then BOOOOOOOOOOOOM and my entire house shook.
so i run outside, because it sounded like soemthing had collapsed (my first thought was my carport) . and look out and see this:
a huge limb (about 1/4th the size of the tree) of a pecan tree in my neighbors yard had fallen off. and crash landed into our yards and the street (thank god not on our homes). it ended up snapping the power lines which run the street lamps; and is completely blocking off the road.
so now the fire dep't is out there, looking at it like, "what do we do now?" lol.
turns out, the trees around here have been falling because of all the rain we've been getting - the tree sucks up all the water and puts it in the limbs/branches....which then get top heavy and just fall off! the lady that lives on the otherside of my neighbor, said shes been livin here for 39 years or so, and she sees it all the time.
makes me thankful that i have just a lawn, and no trees (or big ones, at least). my neighbor was tellin' me that i used to have one, but the 2nd owners before me had it cut, because of fear that it would fall on the house too - and he's had some of his branches cut too, so that anything that does fall, falls away from the houses.
crazy morning!!!
that happened a couple times when we lived in houston... lots of pecan trees over there as well
wow that must have been scary.
last year, lightning split a tree in front of my place in half.
looks like the branch broke off and fell on the street. doesn't look like it's too close to your house dude.
did you eat any of the pecans?
With all of the storms here in Austin of late, there I was sitting in the living room, rolling a , well you know, a left handed cig and KABOOM!!! Heard a cracking and looked out the frigging window and the trunk of the tree outside was still glowing orange .... bolt of lightning hit it and split it in half, luckily my car was parked across the way, but tubularbills that would of sucked if it landed on your house. 
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| Originally posted by eRRaTiK looks like the branch broke off and fell on the street. doesn't look like it's too close to your house dude. |
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| Originally posted by LazFX With all of the storms here in Austin of late, there I was sitting in the living room, rolling a , well you know, a left handed cig and KABOOM!!! Heard a cracking and looked out the frigging window and the trunk of the tree outside was still glowing orange .... bolt of lightning hit it and split it in half, luckily my car was parked across the way, but tubularbills that would of sucked if it landed on your house. |
Damn. I was hoping for the ole "meteor through the roof and into my kitchen" story! 
P.S. Glad you survived. 
No one under 70 has a lawn that green! did you super saturate the green channel in photoshop first!
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| Originally posted by Zoso Damn. I was hoping for the ole "meteor through the roof and into my kitchen" story! P.S. Glad you survived. |
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| Originally posted by Subey No one under 70 has a lawn that green! did you super saturate the green channel in photoshop first! |
that's neat.
same thing happend to my neighbor when we had 3 hurricanes in one month visit our coast.
but the tree was bigger X 10.
and it actually fell and put a whole in his roof.
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| Originally posted by washout same thing happend to my neighbor when we had 3 hurricanes in one month visit our coast. but the tree was bigger X 10. and it actually fell and put a whole in his roof. |
in louisiana, everyone's lawn is that green. 
. well, only if you f*cked it up, then it wouldn't be green of course.
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| Originally posted by LeopoldStotch in louisiana, everyone's lawn is that green. . well, only if you f*cked it up, then it wouldn't be green of course. |
it's all viney 
i grew up on a farm and our laneway was lined iwth sugar maple and old walnut. ever big storm that came through we would lose big branches all the time. pretty awesome sound they make. and it kept me busy on saturday afternoons cutting up the branches / trunks and dragging them out back with the tractor
I'm not going to bother reading the thread because I've had too much coffee...but that doesn't look like your house almost got crushed at all 
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| Originally posted by bas I'm not going to bother reading the thread because I've had too much coffee...but that doesn't look like your house almost got crushed at all |
. and yeah the picture does look like it's not near the house, but however, if the branch tipped the other way, instead of left, it might have hit his house. 
"eating eggs and toast"
haha, i like how you describe in your stories!
i'm glad it did not fall the other way towards your house, or even on your house! 
this thread sucks
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| Originally posted by chach this thread sucks |
Glad to hear that shit didn't fall on your house!! That would suck to have to pay to get fixed!
Man that shit almost fell on your neighbor's house from across the street. What the fuck are you talking about ? Change the title plz. It is rather misleading.
nice lawn. falling trees is a huge concern of mine. bet homeowner's insurance doesn't cover that does it?
eeeeeek. We had a tree that was struck by lightning here this pass spring and the fall of the tree shook my house, my neighbours and the one around the corner. Just because it fell one way doesn't mean it couldn't have easily fallen the other way. You people are insensitive assholes.
Glad your house , and you are ok.
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