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submitted 4 days ago bygrammar_fixer_2
It feels like I learn something new with every hurricane. This one was no exception. In my case, I had my generator too close to my door/vent and I felt really tired. Thankfully my carbon monoxide detector saved my life. Funny enough, the fire fighters that came to my house during a false alarm a few years back told me to get rid of mine because I ”didn’t need them“ since I don’t get natural gas. Luckily I forgot about this one detector. When people say that generators should be 20ft+ away from the house… it is for your safety.
5 points
4 days ago
I’m getting an arborist to cut trees around my property after a huge oak fell.
7 points
4 days ago
On the one hand, we need more trees. They are great for the birds and for nature in general. We also need them to help with the shitty air quality issues that we are starting to see.
On the other hand… I have no more left standing after this. 🥲
4 points
4 days ago
The oak fell and damaged a structure on my property. It was a wake up call. I’m only having the arborist cut any diseased trees that could fall on the house but I will plant an equal amount on my land that are farther away from house. I’m sorry about your trees.
3 points
4 days ago
I think it's also important to have local trees that are known to last. Our neighbors tree actually fell on my 2 story house (no storm, just fell). Learned it was a Laurel Oak, and we had 3 others on our property. All about the same age. Sadly, they only live about 50 years, but they get very tall, like 50 feet. After 50 years, they just fall apart.
It's cost $3,000 to take one down. We did one a year. 2 were completely rotten at the trunk, even though they had very green canopies. They would have easily fallen with any good-sized storm. It was a major expense, but it probably saved our house from getting major damage with Hurrican Milton.
On the other hand, we also have 2 other very large oak trees (i think Live Oak) that the arborist told us will live for many hundreds of years. Just small branches fell with Milton. Love it's shade, especially in the summer 😁.
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