chainsaw song
Howard, on host 68.155.20.205
Saturday, August 6, 2005, at 09:46:11
We had a pair bad storm last night and chainsaws are already singing all over the neighborhood. We have a few treetops in the yard, but no major damage that I can see. I talked to a utilities worker and he said it was bad all over the county. He was supervising a crew that was removing a tree from the street about half a block from us. We never lost power, but he said we must have been lucky, because a lot of people did. Rainfall was officially 4 to 8 inches in two storm about 30 minutes apart.
There are two things that still worry me. There is an old farmhouse over in the woods about 100 yards from us. We can see it only the in winter. They have a bunch of dogs that bark a little from time to time, but today they are making sounds that I have never heard before. Some of it is howling and moaning, but at least one is making a sound like a clucking chicken. I think something is wrong over there. I don't know their name, but one of our neighbors is aquainted with them and they are going to check.
The other problem is a minor mystery. There is a tree top on the ground over by the garden and there isn't a tree like that any where around. We have a number of tall oak, hickory, and maple trees over there, but this is from a tree with compound leaves and immature seeds in big green bunches. It's about 25 feet long and six inches around on the big end. So far the only tree I've found like that is the one down in the road, and that's two or three hundred feet from where this one landed. It would have had to fly over two houses and a bunch of 100 foot trees, and it's uphill at that. I don't think it's possible.
I haven't heard any official estimates of wind speed, but before it got dark, the wind in our back yard was 40 to 50 miles per hour.
I have a massive clean up job. There are truck loads of debris in our yard ranging from logs to twigs, and some big broken limbs are still hanging in trees out of reach. The driveway is covered, but still passable.
Oh well. It's good exercise. Howard
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