Hurricane Irene / Any Storm Chasers?

[cybergeek23851]

SO I am guessing you will be house shopping next week?

We filed our claim yesterday. Now we're waiting for the adjusters to call back. I'm trying to book work for both this house and my Great-Uncle's. The good thing for him is, I can do most of the work, I just need help (his associate has a wheel loader) in getting the wood and brush out. I am also trying to salvage one section of a maple tree (roughly 30"-32" DBH by 20 or so foot long after trim up, low taper, if any) for milling.

Basically now all we can do is mop up and mitigate.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Sorry you have so much mess to deal with Jay. I guess what doesn't kill us.......
Just seems like a serious break in the foul weather of life's circumstance is over due your way friend.

 

[Paul B]

J, dont forget to invoice your uncle for the emergency works performed under the new home renovation company you just started no sense in working for free when the insurance companies are due to pay their share for that which you dutifully paid insurance.

 

[pantheraba]

He is right...invoice the company for the work you did. Just because you did the work (instead of a formal tree company) doesn't mean it should not be paid for. The insurance company would have paid a tree company...they should pay you instead.

 

[Labour of Love]

Kate, it looked like Vermont really had some flooding, you okay?

Yes, all OK here. We had a lot of water that washed out a bit of my 2 main flower fields: floated lots of debris into the plants, but actually lost very little. It'll take a week or so to put back the topsoil and plants, but lots had it much worse. I've heard that, in some areas, it was worse than the "big one" the Flood of '27.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Great to hear you weren't hit too hard!

 

[bill22]

I'd be willing to go storm chasing, i've been pretty much dead in the water since my injury but its just about healed up,anyone up there need a decent climber/cdl driver?

 

[NeTree]

Why, you know of one?

 

[bill22]

lol, yeah me silly.

 

[TheTreeWiseMen]

We got hammered, river burst it's banks and then promptly poured into my basement. This was filmed 2 mins from my house, on the road leading to the marina where I park all my kit....crazy $h1t..

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[canadiantreeman]

Devastation. That sux.

At least you'll be able to say you rode down main st on a jet ski. That's gotta be worth something.

 

[Fiddler]

Glad for those of you who didn't get hit and sorry for them who did.

 

[TheTreeWiseMen]

Devastation. That sux.

At least you'll be able to say you rode down main st on a jet ski. That's gotta be worth something.

Not me, mate...just some geezer 'round the corner from me.

 

[canadiantreeman]

Well...he's got a good story anyways. Sorry to hear about your situation.

 

[OTGBOSTON]

Nah, I bet he has people for that.

I do...LOTS of 'em. I still get my hands dirty though, and manage to run the operation from my truck with two phones and a laptop. We've been running six log trucks, two cranes and five bucket crews since 6am on sunday. random city trucks have been pressed into service to pick up small limbs and we have satellite dump sites set up all over the city. We think we have all the roads cleared and all the trees off of houses by now. In the next few days debris will start to come out of backyards and such, so another whole round of clean up will happen. we've already decided to work through the weekend. All that being said...If we ever got a cat 3 like the one in '38 we will be totally frigged up.

 

[Paul B]

rake in the OT! Around here we had a good wind in 2006 around the 65 mph mark, it took a lot of tree work with it after the cleanup. Storms afterwards caused little damage as there wasnt anything left in the trees that wouldnt survive to that previous threshold. See if that happens up your way Greg and work safe eh!

 

[NeTree]

Already happened out my way, Paul; trees that survived the ice storm held up just fine, for the most part.

 

[Paul B]

stands to reason, thanks Erik.

 

[OTGBOSTON]

Yup. A good storm like this will keep the storm calls way down for a few months at least. Interesting thing about this one it was mostly whole tree failures and mostly lindens.

 

[Bodean]

Trip out.

 

[gf beranek]

Storms do have a way of taking out the weak trees, but at the same time they weaken a lot of the good trees too. Which usually shows itself some years down the line when the next big storm comes. Heck of a cycle for sure.

 

[Bermy]

I often look at trees here with an eye to what they have survived, Cat 3 Hurricanes etc, looking good for the most part, but then some you can see twisting cracks or places where big limbs broke out...you have to trace the 'recovery' and see if woundwood has laid down sufficient strength, or has rot set in.

As time goes by, I am always amazed at what some big heavy long limbed trees can handle, but then, isn't that the beauty of a tree, we think we need to manage them, and a lot of times they are just fine on their own!

 

[Cobleskill]

I should get some pictures of what the mist from Niagara Falls does to the trees in the vicinity when it builds up ice. Bonsai.

 

[cybergeek23851]

I finally got to a point in my schedule where I could finally update this thread with a few pics. It doesn't show everything, just the main issues as of right now...

 

[MasterBlaster]

That roof's looking a 'lil swayback!