You guys felt the wind storm down south too eh? I was driving to downtown Vancouver last night, and the wind was incredible...parts of the Lower Mainland lost power, and street lights were out on major streets...right now, I am in the process of raking up the leaves and breaking up the branches that came down...quite a bit of work...it is probably gonna take a few days before things are back to normal...

A couple of years back, we had a tree similar in size to the one you described come crashing down in our backyard during a wind storm...it came crashing down on the garage roof...we had another tree come down before that one on some power lines, and it took out the power for the entire neighborhood...the clean up was a nightmare...wood chips and pine needles everywhere...

Anyhow, glad to hear you were lucky and nothing was damaged on your side of the yard...

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