Above you see one of the trees we lost in the July 4th storm that rolled through our area, this tree was the tree the tire swing was tied too. part of a couple of large oak trees, that are int he corner of our yard close to the lake.
We also had a piece of our facia blow off the side of our roof, which caused some of the soffit also to fall out, and this will need to be replaced. We didn't loose any shingles so this will just be about a 10 minute repair job hopefully.
We also lost about the 3 jackpine trees along the fence row which are located in the pasture.
The biggest tree we lost was a huge old popple tree located along our driveway just north of the house. It tipped out of the ground form the wind and all of the rain we have had made it easy for it to be tipped over, in the process it caused heavy damage to an old birch tree right next to it and that tree will be removed also.
As you can see I have to fire up my chainsaw to remove all of these which means this weekend will be filled with the noise of the chainsaw.
Oh by the way we lost power for about 12 hours as a tree in our pasture blew over and took out the power line between us and the neighbors. We didn't see a lot of damage else where in our neighborhood, but they were a few other trees down not to far from our property. Other than that all is well and no one was hurt, and the power was back up by Thursday noon!
Sunday, July 08, 2012
That had to be a scary few minutes! Glad you are all safe!