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A neighbor's pine tree just fell on our house!!!
Topic Started: May 20 2008, 06:54 AM (556 Views)
plays88keys
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Shook the whole house when it hit, too! Looks like some minor roof damage, so we're lucky (I think) in that respect. The big question is how the tree expert is going to take it down without doing more damage.

You know, I've wanted our neighbor to get rid of the fence of white pines that borders our lots for decades, but this is ridiculous!!! On the bright side, he said he might as well take them ALL down, so that's a good thing! We'll have some light back inside our home!

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HOLY CARP!!!
Glad no one's hurt, and property damage seems limited. :)
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Wow, bet that got your attention.
Hope you can get it fixed before they have to stretch a blue tarp over the damage to keep the rain out.
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Holy sh!t!! Scary... I'm glad no one was hurt, and the damage seems limited to replacing a few shingles.

Wow...
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Plays,

In that third picture it looks like you have a couple decking nails working up that aren't from the tree.

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May 20 2008, 11:04 AM
Glad no one's hurt, and property damage seems limited. :)

Ditto!
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Wow, must have been scary!.

Tree removal guys can work wonders. We have an attached house with no easement, and our neighbors had a huge maple removed a couple years ago from their back yard.
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:o Yikes! Glad no serious damage or injury occured, but that must have been pretty frightening. Trees crashing onto my house (or my neighbour's) is one of my worst nightmares.
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We have a giant branch that overhangs our bedroom. The tree itself is on village property. Some day... Actually, Kent Nagano spoke about two trees crashing into his living room - just missing his piano...and him - happened in SF back in February if my memory serves.
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The tree guy is taking it down right now. Thanks for your comments - yes, we feel fortunate nothing worse happened.

lb, replacing the roof was already on the list of things to get done in the next year -- and it may have just moved up to the #1 position.
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That brings back very bad memories of hurricane Isabel. We had an eight ton oak fall on the roof. It smacked the chimney, which broke off and fell into the house in one big 6-7 foot long chunk. The chimney popped through the outer roof like it was paper. Then it hit the floor of the bonus room, which couldn't hold it. After a second of rending, tearing, and cracking sounds, the chimney fell through to the living room floor below, pulling carpeting and furniture down with it. The floor joists of the main floor cracked, but held, or the chimney would have continued on down ten more feet into the crawl space. THAT would have been an 'interesting' repair.

When I saw your house, the first thing that caught my eye was your undamaged chimney! Whew.
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We had a big ol' birch fall on a house we were renting. It does get your attention.
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Holy Cow, Plays. :hair: Glad you're ok!

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Ditto.

Remember that their homeowner's insurance should pay for the damage. If it was on their property, it's their tree, it's their problem, and they should pay to remove it.
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Oh, about a year or two ago, a tree fell about three houses down. It was so big I couldn't put my arms around the trunk. Fell over and knocked off the homeowner's porch. Must have been 60-80 feet tall.

The scary part is the base of the tree was about ten feet from the school bus stop where about ten kids meet the bus, at six different times of day. Luckily, it happened during the middle of the day, when the kids were all at school. If it had happened at a different time, and had fallen in a different direction ... I don't like to think about it.
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May 20 2008, 11:00 AM
Ditto.

Remember that their homeowner's insurance should pay for the damage.  If it was on their property, it's their tree, it's their problem, and they should pay to remove it.

We had a similar situation several years back, where a limb from our neighbor's tree that was growing over our driveway and garage landed on my Jeep and the roof of the garage. Took down some brickwork on the garage and caused about $1200 damage to the Jeep. My insurer said that he'd cover the damage, since the limb was over my property.

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Whoa...plays glad everything and everyone is ok!

We had a 75 ft pine fall on our house...only problem was the tree man did it!

The plus was that they came and fixed broken windows right away and some leaks we had before were fixed in the process.


Your neighbor must feel terrible!
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glad you weren't working on the roof!
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plays88keys
May 20 2008, 08:40 AM


lb, replacing the roof was already on the list of things to get done in the next year -- and it may have just moved up to the #1 position.

That was pretty clever of you to get your neighbors to pay for your new roof. :thumb:
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Aw, go ahead and get a blue tarp.

It's a fashion statement down here....
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May 20 2008, 12:38 PM
Aw, go ahead and get a blue tarp.

It's a fashion statement down here....

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