Saturday morning at about 2:30 AM Kevin and I woke up to the terrifying sound of one of our huge trees falling to the ground. It was an eerie sight in the dark with the branches covering the driveway. The wind was blowing about 70 mph. We were scared to even go outside to look at the tree.
We were very lucky that the tree did not fall on the cars or the house.
The ground was saturated from days, weeks, months of rain. The tree just uprooted. There was a huge pool of water under the roots.
The force of the tree falling caused it to crush the earth, wall and asphalt.
As Kevin was trying to figure out the plan of attack...
...our neighbors were on the way over with lots of help to clean up our little mess. When I came out to help, five members of the Satko clan and John from across the street were there with chain saws, wheel barrels, and blowers. They jumped right in and started cutting off branches and hauling them away.
Jayson and the two boys arrived shortly after we got started. This was the beginning of a very long hard day for Jayson. He worked his butt off for us. I really appreciate his help. Kimberly watched the boys with the help of Jordan and Torrin in our powerless house while we worked to clear the tree.
Once all the branches gone we had to cut the trunk.
Cutting the tree at the bend in the trunk caused the remaining trunk to spring back into place with lightning speed and force. Pretty scary.
Jayson rented a splitter and helped Kevin and I cut up the huge rounds from the tree. This is one of the piles of what remains of our tree after a long long day. I am so very grateful to my neighbors and Jayson for helping us to clear out our big tree mess so quickly. Thank you very much.
