The new neighbors are cutting down their big pine tree

[conuly]

This is an enormous pity, as that tree both keeps this house 10 degrees cooler in the summer and also blocks north winds in the winter.

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Comments

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Ehh, no; that could have been very bad. Years ago, up on Whidbey Island, a big fir tree fell on my parents' neighbors' house - I forget why they weren't sleeping upstairs that night, but they were damn lucky, because the branches of the tree when it fell stuck all the way through their bed, through the floor below, and through the downstairs ceiling - they'd have been skewered and/or crushed if they'd been up there.

I love the giant Douglas fir outside my own bedroom window. It looks healthy, but that's no guarantee of anything - at our own Merrie Greenwood Faire last month, a branch full of fresh green leaves fell and killed a lady (https://www.google.com/search?q=merrie+greenwood+tree+fell). The prevailing winds are such that if that tree does break, it'll likely crush our storage shed rather than the house, but one never knows.