View source for 2025/09/06/tree down

At about 4pm, the [[broken-nose tree]] ''finally'' fell down. We've been dreading this for years. Duke Energy asked for (and got) permission to cut it down maybe 5-10 years ago, but never did.

It had gotten to the point where I was nervous every time I had to walk through the area where I knew it would fall, if it fell -- because it very much felt like one of those things where it would just randomly fall down one day, and not wait for a storm or even a high wind... and here we are.

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File:20250906_161353.jpg | luckily, B had ''just'' cleared this area yesterday!
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File:20250906_161527.jpg | main pole still standing!
File:20250906_161610.jpg | base of the tree
File:20250906_161637.jpg | another tree caught our wire, possibly preventing damage to our pole
File:20250906_161659.jpg | general chaos at ground zero
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