if a tree falls on my house, will anyone hear it?

I’ll have more pictures on flickr as soon as I can upload them (flickr’s being a bitch right now), but here’s the tree that almost fell on my house new year’s day (click the pic for detail).

Img 1274 2We had what is, for northern california, a major storm come through new years eve. Major winds and flooding rain (I’m glad I live in the foothills, no flood watch within miles of me – it’s still pissing down as I type this). We woke to power out new year’s day, but then about 9:30 am our neighbor came to the door and said “Did you see your tree?”

We didn’t even hear it fall. Missed my house by a few feet. You can’t really get the scale of this tree from the picture, but it goes way past what you see here.

No one was hurt, and the cars that are usually parked here were missed completely. The only damage is to my fence and the play structure in the back yard.

The phrase dodged a bullet comes to mind. My kids and my friends kid were playing on the other side of that chimney you see in the picture when the tree went down. This could have been a very different entry if the wind had shifted a little.

14 thoughts on “if a tree falls on my house, will anyone hear it?”

  1. Judging from the root structure, that thing had to have been 50 feet tall at least! Looks like my wish for a “peaceful” new year came a little late–at least property damage was at a minimum and no one was hurt.

  2. Well next year your not going to have to buy a cord for your fireplace… nor the year after that!

    Wow. 200SEX lifes and adventure… Glad no one got hurt.

    RIP tree.

  3. Wow. I’m glad that nobody was hurt. We’ve ahd some pretty major wind storms in BC lately too. There seems to be a lot of fucked up weather going on lately.

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