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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  luckily, B had just cleared this area yesterday!
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  main pole still standing!
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  base of the tree
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  another tree caught our wire, possibly preventing damage to our pole
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  general chaos at ground zero