That one August storm I'll never forget...

Back in 2018 we had a microburst hit a neighborhood over in Maplewood. I was on site the next morning and it looked like a bomb went off, trees snapped clean in half all up and down the street. We pulled four massive oaks out of one lady's roof over three days, working dawn to dusk. The worst part was a 50 year old silver maple that had sheared off right at the base, root ball still intact. Anyone else ever deal with a job that just kept getting worse the more you dug into it?

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the_matthew21d ago

a silver maple like that going at the root ball is rough, that's usually the one part you hope will hold. @the_laura's neighbor story about the rotted oak is exactly the kind of thing that sticks with you, you look at every tree different after seeing that. sixty year old root system that just gave up, all that time underground and one storm undoes it.

maryt6227d ago

and THAT silver maple probably looked healthy on the outside too, fooled everyone until it let go.

the_laura27d ago

fooled everyone until it let go" - yeah that's the thing about trees (and probably a lot of things in life honestly). My neighbor had this massive oak in his backyard looked like a postcard, thick trunk, full canopy, everyone said how beautiful it was. One spring after some heavy rain it just split right down the middle, ripped the whole back corner of his garage off. Turned out the inside was all rotted out from some fungus nobody saw coming. Makes you wonder how many things we look at every day and think are solid when they're actually two seconds from falling apart.