Instant Karma Again

[Fry]

Though this instant Karma was of the good variety.

So last night I had the GF over along with a buddy of mine. We were about knee deep into a case of Bud Light when a Summer Storm started up, so naturally all of us gathered around the window to see the gale force winds, hail and downpour. As we were watching the trees behind our neighbors house sway to severe angles we commented those trees are coming down. My buddy and GF then comment perhaps we should go outside and move the cars (2008 XLE Camary, 2001 Honda Accord Coupe and 2004 WRX) I said I wouldn't as I think that Huge Catalpa Tree is going to come down.

No sooner did I say that did we hear a loud crackling sound and to our shock and horror the Catalpa tree, (which consisted of 2 40' Trunks that split off at ground level) started to come down, one trunk towards my living room window we were peering out, the other trunk went in front of my parents house, needless to say as it was falling  straight towards us we scattered to various parts of the house knowing it was going to come crashing through the walls, luckily it fell just short of my house.

So in the midst of the storm we all ran out to see if the other trunk had hit my parents house especially seeing how my father is disabled and on Oxygen again, luckily it didn't.

Below are the pics we took last night and this morning, no damage to any of the cars, or the house though we lost Phone, Electricity, Cable and the Internet for most of the night, Cable still isn't restored. I called my brother last night right afterwards and he brought down a few chainsaws and we stayed up to about 1:30am cutting limbs and brush so that if my sickly father needed to get out he could, the other trunk was entangled in power lines so we stayed away from that.

















The tree couldn't have fallen any better if a team of arborist had come down and fell it themselves, one trunk went right in front of my folks house, the other trunk fell parallel to my folks house, a few feet either way and the cars would have gotten crushed and or the house would have been caved in. The only damage thus far is a small dent in the Accords gas cap door.

So I guess with my string of bad karma recently, this was a god send, phew..0

[bombadillo]

Dang dude, lucky it missed the house.  We had a really really bad storm 2 years ago and Redwood trees are abundant here.  After 2+ weeks of nonstop rain, one of the 200 foot redwood trees gave up and blew into my friends housing for the coast guard.  It broke off after it crushed through to the room, and then the top 75 feet or so landed right in the center of their grand cherokee completely crushing it.  If they had been in the room, they'd have been dead.  This is only about a month after their washing machine malfunctioned and flooded 4 condos with water and really ruined a lot of days!!!  Glad to see that everyone's all right and safe.

[Chokstick]

Well then, its mother nature a bi!@h!  Glad no one was hurt.

[Tang]

dang lucky it missed both cars

[scottpA_GS]

Wow.. That is pretty crazy

[Fry]

Whats crazy is the fact that we've gotten quotes from $2500-$3800 to cut the rest of the tree up, chip the branches, and remove the root ball.

My brother and I cut up one Trunk last night and made a few huge piles of branches that need to be chipped and today I sliced and diced the other trunk up for the most part so I'm having a difficult time accepting the quotes, for what work they would have left to do. The thing that's stopping me from doing all of the work is, getting rid of the root ball, chippings and the cut up logs, Catalpa sucks to burn.

Ah what a fun day, ain't mother nature a biotch.

[yamahonkawazuki]

well upright teh rootball, ( if you can) and let it be. eventually ( if it does not re-root, it will die), if it does, you can usually rent a stump grinder

[frankieG]

yipers good thing it turned out the way it did.  why did it take you so long to saw them away?   inexperience or drunk lol

[Fry]

I hate manual labor, I am after all a State Worker (Psyche Field) so the night they fell we were out there clearing a path to my folks door.

The next day we began cutting the other trunk once the HOT wires were removed.

The Root Ball is the issue, it wil eat through chainsaw chains faster than god knows what, plus disposal.