Reminder to check around your house

Abrowneyegirl · ‎03-15-2010

On the other side of our neighborhood, a home suffered terrible damage when part of their dead tree fell.

The massive limb hit one of their cars, broke 2 windows on the house, damaged the siding, and pulled down the gutter and down-spouting.

It has to be 10's of thousands of dollars in damage. I was talking to the homeowner and she said the insurance adjuster came out and determined that the HOME OWNERS are at fault for not removing the clearly dead tree. The insurance company has no intention of paying. The owners hired an attorney.

I have to admit the tree is really dead, dead old and very dry. They are lucky nobody was injured or killed.

Still Raining · ‎03-30-2014

My property has acres of trees. I had four young family men help me move.

Those fools were over the moon and spent a couple of days cutting off things around the house and making firewood. Come on guys, about the bed?? The amount of equipment making noise....

fthunt · ‎12-24-2010

Don't blame the insurance company - home owners just don't believe a tree will fall on them. So Stupid I met with my tree surgeon last week for 3 tall Ash trees to be removed due to the Ash Bore. I want them out of here before winter and possibility of an ice storm. One tree used to be straight up - now leaning half over my lawn toward my large screened porch. Yes, it's costly but...............and my roof is only 3 years old.

goldensrbest · ‎03-10-2010

@Still Raining wrote:
My property has acres of trees. I had four young family men help me move.

Those fools were over the moon and spent a couple of days cutting off things around the house and making firewood. Come on guys, about the bed?? The amount of equipment making noise....

Either for their own use,or to sell it.

When you lose some one you L~O~V~E, that Memory of them, becomes a TREASURE.

ValuSkr · ‎03-15-2014

@Still Raining wrote:
My property has acres of trees. I had four young family men help me move.

Those fools were over the moon and spent a couple of days cutting off things around the house and making firewood. Come on guys, about the bed??

What about the bed?

ValuSkr · ‎03-15-2014

It's nice to live on a treed property but trees have to be maintained and it's not cheap.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

I am not a big fan of trees around houses. We have a not really lovely small to medium oak tree I have my eye on. It's too near the house to suit me.

But it's going to cost a few thousand probably to remove and I'm not sure what to do then. We would need to re-landscape.

kittyloo · ‎03-11-2010

my insurance place now, if you have a tree touching your house, it has to be trimmed or removed to continue insurance.

millieshops · ‎03-09-2010

@Abrowneyegirl I suspect the people who own the property right behind my rental don't have any idea there's a huge limb across the back food of their detached garage. It doesn't seem to have knocked through the roof, but....

The number of huge trees that went down during this storm seems to be more than went down during Superstorm Sandy, but the water damage is much, much less and that's good. Not everyone on Long Island has power restored, but most houses are going to be livable when there's power.