John H. wrote:
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:20:43 -0500, BAR wrote:

At about 3:30 PM today, in Maryland, a big strong wind came up and just
blew down the blue spruce in my front yard. Didn't hear a thing and
didn't hit my house. My next door neighbor told me she just watched it
slowly go from vertical to horizontal. It missed the gate and took out a
section of split rail fence. There goes a couple of thousand dollars.

Those of your north of me keep safe.

We were having a nice little sunny break from the rain, and suddenly it
sounded like a freight train coming through. I ran out and watched the big
oaks going back and forth with a lot of concern. Luckily nothing fell over.

Sorry to hear about your loss, but glad no one was hurt.

The problem is the sister to my tree, five feet across the property line
is leaning towards my drive way, and the root ball is lifting. We moved
my truck out of harms way and have left the 10 year old minivan parked
in the driveway.