At home I have a little rule. If any tree grows tall enough to hit the house
it is gone. Old trees are not your friend during a hurricane. I had a 60 ft
maple cut that was 40 Ft from the house and about 30 over the top of it.
When it was cut down some of the branches half way up snapped when only cut
1/3 of the way through. They were about 1 ft in diameter and had a lot of
branches off them. After that 3 others were dropped bordering neighbors
houses.
40 mph winds thats barely small craft warnings actually an interesting time
to go sailing.LOL If you think driving a race car can get your pulse going
try sailing in a 56 mph breeze in late September about 15 miles offshore in
open ocean in a 31 ft boat.. When the spreaders near the top of a 60 mast
dip in the water it starts to get your attention pretty quick.. At that
point you are about 10 degrees from a complete knock down and it gets pretty
ugly from there. You find out pretty quick why a good sailor has either a
hatchet or a very sharp knife with them.
dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of kturk
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 8:03 AM
> To: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Dennis is history...
>
>
> Well it's sorta gone now... still don't have power at the
> house... one of the
> big trees a couple of doors down the street fell over on a power poll and
> destroyed a couple of hundred feet of power line.... course ya
> gotta know it
> was the only real damage our city had... BUT the Unions have
> told the power
> company that no employee may work on anything until it's cleared through
> them... and the power company sub's out polls... hence it won't be fixed
> immediately...they have to get the sub contractor out here....
>
> The up side to living in Enterprise Alabama... is that the Mayor
> and Police
> chief were out with the 15 man crew clearing the street of this
> 100' tall pine
> tree not an hour after it went down... Our Mayor was less then
> gracious about
> the power company thou... his thoughts were that they Sucked... ( which
> confirmed all our suspicions )...
>
> Seems the top seed on the winds here was around 80mph.. with an average of
> about 40.... not a real big deal... sure didn't live up to it's
> potential...
> it was looking rather ugly as it came on shore about 75 miles
> from our place.
>
> Keith
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