Author Topic: Jeebus... This sucks... (Read 4672 times)

Uncle Bob · « **on:** June 14, 2007, 03:54:13 PM »

It stormed here today. There's a huge half a tree on the front of my new house, power is off in half the town (my half) and it's really frickin' hot. And I can't play Wii.

that Baby guy · « **Reply #1 on:** June 14, 2007, 04:06:31 PM »

I know your pain. You'll make it through! Try board games!

Requiem · « **Reply #2 on:** June 14, 2007, 04:25:54 PM »

Candles!

Geech · « **Reply #3 on:** June 14, 2007, 04:46:47 PM »

It is times like these that try Men's handheld system's batteries.

Athrun Zala · « **Reply #4 on:** June 14, 2007, 06:51:31 PM »

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Originally posted by: Uncle Bob
It stormed here today. There's a huge half a tree on the front of my new house, power is off in half the town (my half) and it's really frickin' hot. And I can't play Wii.

supposedly something like that is going to happen here tomorrow...

hmm... better buy some batteries...

UncleBob · « **Reply #5 on:** June 15, 2007, 12:04:28 AM »

Ian Sane · « **Reply #6 on:** June 15, 2007, 05:38:49 AM »

Well at least the half of the tree didn't go through the house. And at least it's summer. Last fall we had a big power outage and it was a cold fall this year (snow in November which pretty much never happens here). I can live without air conditioning but without heat is much worse.

This still sucks but all things considering this is best possible scenario for having a big tree branch fall off on your property and having no power.

EasyCure · « **Reply #7 on:** June 15, 2007, 06:30:40 AM »

trees arent your friend UB, now go cut it down Scarface style!

dont forget the F-bombs ;-)

UncleBob · « **Reply #8 on:** June 15, 2007, 06:53:24 AM »

Yeah, all things considered, we were pretty lucky.

Until I saw how much it cost just to get the tree limb removed...

Not to mention fixing the damage to the house and getting the other half of the tree removed as well.

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #9 on:** June 15, 2007, 07:38:20 AM »

When they send you a bill for removing the tree, send them a bill for the firewood.

Ceric · « **Reply #10 on:** June 16, 2007, 05:03:37 AM »

UncleBob, please use this image instead of above so Bloodworth doesn't hunt you down. Though I don't know who is doing that these days. Also this was done with the beta of my forum resizer tool

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f118/Cericme/rforuncaBobTree.jpg

Glad their was extensive damage done to your new home.

bustin98 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 16, 2007, 02:53:08 PM »

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I'm so glad there was not extensive damage done to your new home.

Fixed

nickmitch · « **Reply #12 on:** June 16, 2007, 03:04:01 PM »

Your home insurance won't cover it?

UncleBob · « **Reply #13 on:** June 16, 2007, 03:20:33 PM »

They will, after the deductible... which is just about as much as the cost of getting everything fixed...

that Baby guy · « **Reply #14 on:** June 16, 2007, 03:44:56 PM »

I've seen this happen before, just about once a year to someone I know. We get a lot of those strong flash storms around my home town. Let me be the first to say that trees are much bigger looking once they've fallen over. After every storm at my house, several branches would have fallen down, and we'd have to throw them in a field we had, for lack of anything to do with them. We were lucky not to have any trees growing close enough to our house for anything to hit them, though.

JoeTrumpet · « **Reply #15 on:** June 17, 2007, 10:55:59 AM »

That's a bummer. I remember in 2005 after Wilma when we lost power for a full week. I decided to teach myself piano, and was quite dedicated without the electronic distractions. I would probably be better off not owning any electronics...

Ah well.

Hope it works out well. Paying for the damage caused to our roof done by just wind was bad enough; can't imagine the damage done by a fallen tree in addition to that.

Ceric · « **Reply #16 on:** June 17, 2007, 11:27:16 AM »

We had a tree fall through a fence and onto are car and the insurance said it was a "Act of God" and didn't cover it. Well at least thats not happenning.

vudu · « **Reply #17 on:** June 18, 2007, 08:14:44 AM »

Confirmed: God hates Ceric.

Zach · « **Reply #18 on:** June 18, 2007, 12:31:39 PM »

Posting from a laptop?

Anyway, that sucks. We had about half of a big old maple fall off during a huge storm once. Fortunately it fell into the road, so the roadcrew had to clean it up for us. The only damage was a very mangled speed limit sign in our yard (county's expense) which was very lucky because the neighbor had her car parked under that tree just the day before.

Edit: the other half of the tree lived for a few years after that, but it died slowly, so we did have to pay to cut it down because it probably would have enventually fallen into the house.

Ceric · « **Reply #19 on:** June 19, 2007, 05:20:04 AM »

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Originally posted by: vudu
Confirmed: God hates Ceric.

So true at times...

Kairon · « **Reply #20 on:** June 19, 2007, 10:41:53 AM »

Oh my giddy aunt.

It looks like a clean cut from that picture though. You probably could save the tree, the environment, the world, and your children's future if you wanted to.

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #21 on:** June 20, 2007, 04:32:12 AM »

No way. That tree has been substantially weakened structurally. Even if it could survive the trauma, which is unlikely, there's now a higher risk of it falling down.

UncleBob · « **Reply #22 on:** June 20, 2007, 04:45:19 AM »

Exactly. We spoke with two different "experts" who both agreed, the tree has to come down.

Kairon · « **Reply #23 on:** June 20, 2007, 01:15:52 PM »

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