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- rockygrace
- I was born in 1962; you do the math. (See also: I'm too lazy to remember to update this thing regularly.) I bought my first house in the summer of 2009; I share it with four cats and with the memories of The Runt and Little Girl, who both passed away in 2011. Rocky, the cat for whom this blog was named, passed away in 2008; I miss them all. I wish I lived somewhere where the winters weren't eight months long; other than that, life is good.
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6 comments:
Does that make up for the day? Almost....
That was taken looking across the park at West Hill, a view I still marvel at because it's always different, minute to minute, and yep,
almost.
Did you get weather today?
65 mph winds that had me calculating the distance between the house and the huge gum tree, and the height of the tree, and how much of the roof it would take out if it fell. Very little rain, though. And no pretty skies.
Ha, ~~Silk, I eyeball the old willow in my backyard every time the wind blows.
Is it the gum tree that makes the mess out of your yard? Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if it came down ... as long as nobody got hurt, of course. I know how much it costs to take down a big tree, and this way your homeowner's policy would pay ... just thinking out loud, here. :)
Insurance won't pay a cent unless it actually damages the house - then they'll pay everything (but ONLY if you had no reason to suspect that the tree was dangerous, and only up to your wind-damage limit). Taking down a standing tree that looks dangerous, or clearing a fallen tree that didn't hit anything, is all on the homeowner, since it's considered "normal maintenance".
I've been through this before at the country house. I figure this tree will cost well over $3,000 to remove because there's no way to get a crane or cherry-picker in there, so it would have to be taken down by climbers with ropes to direct falling branches. Plus, it's on a steep bank edging a protected waterway, and it's covered with poison ivy.
Once I get out from under the country house costs, this is the first job to take care of.
Well, yeah, I thought maybe if a storm took the tree down, then your insurance would pay.
My willow seems to be coming down one branch at a time - every storm, I lose a little more of it.
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