Tue 17 Jan 2012
Disaster Strikes!
Posted by Ken Atherton under Daily Life
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OK, not really. But just after 6AM this morning, a thunderstorm blew into town, and it took the tree in our front yard with it.
Most of the homes in our neighborhood had Bradford Pear trees planted in front of them by the developer, but the years haven’t been so kind to them. A couple of times a year we get pretty powerful straight line winds in our neighborhood, and it’s always been interesting on our evening walks to see whose trees fell over after each storm. Well, this time was our tree’s turn.
We thought at first we were going to cut it up and remove it ourselves, but it is just too big a job without the right tools. So we hired a tree removal company and they are outside right now sawing up the remains and throwing them into a trailer.
The tree had grown from just a little twig and it’s sad to think that it’s not going to be there anymore.
This is how the tree looked in 2001.
This picture is from a year or so later when the tree and Carissa were both still small.
In the summer of 2010, Sandi put a swing on the tree which made a nice place for the girls to play in the summer.
We noticed that at the place where the tree snapped today that there was an old crack that had rotted somewhat. It was just a matter of time before it fell, and today was that time. That’s too bad. Trees are long term projects, and it’ll be a long time before we have another one of that size.
CeCe has been trying to convince Sandi to let her keep a souvenir of the tree (the place where it rotted and broke — seriously!), but I think she’s just going to have to live with the pictures.
