Yesterday morning, I was working in my office, with my headphones on, and suddenly heard this loud echo’y crackle. I pulled the phones off, and continued to listen, and heard only Brenda moving around upstairs. Nothing there to indicate such a noise, but I continued working. A minute later, she came down and asked, “Want to go see?”
The wind was blowing pretty ferociously. The forecast had told us to expect high winds. We have mostly tall pine trees in the back yard and they were blowing back and forth like blades of grass. It’s OK! They’re built for it.
Oak trees, on the other hand, are not. I paced it out — 90 feet, falling from the middle of our neighbor’s yard to the middle of ours. Fortunately, it only took out one other tree, a Maple, on its way down. It will take some equipment being brought down to our yards. I doubt that the tree could be cut up into sizes small enough to be carried by one person, and the crater-sized hole left from the root system will need to be filled in.
Wow … we have enormous oaks in our yard as well, same size … we have yet to lose one but if we do we hope to be as lucky!
One unrelated question – I see you’re running WordPress. Is that a plugin you’ve got to display the academic citations? I’d love to learn more.
Thanks!
-kj-
It’s a plugin called Academic Citation, by Julie Meloni. It’s based on a previous tool called Writer Response Theory (WRT) [ You can get the plugin at the Academic Sand Box (http://www.academicsandbox.com/).
Good luck to you!
— dave —
So glad you nor Brenda were under it! I learn so much from you, you better not have travelling plans! Thank you for the tag making thing!! My class and I are finally starting tags! I hope you see them on our blog soon or some one will be neglecting their homework!
Owww… poor tree! Well, at least no one was hurt when the tree collapsed. =)