I Think It's Trying To Say Something

[Curtis Rouse]

This is what I came home too this morning after I got off work:

This is our tree so you can get an idea of how huge it is. I was standing 2-300 feet away when I took it


This is the damage:


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[Curtis Rouse]

Don't know why that first pic loaded sideways...



This is the view from the upstairs room


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[Dan F]

Did it hit your neighbor's house? What a mess!

 

[Curtis Rouse]

No I live out in the country surrounded by almond orchards. I do have 1 neighbor but their property is on the other side of where the branches fell. The only real damage that I noticed so far is the crushed cyclone fence and some scratches on the truck that was parked directly under where the 2 branches fell. Luckily they didn't break completely apart from the tree or it would have been crushed like a tin can.

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[Warborg]

Looks like a Redwood. I remember coming home home one time to find my tree did that on my carport once

 

[Oddball]

From the upstairs pic, a branch appears to have some cupping. That's where the top of the branch goes out-of-round and develops a downward cleft. This indicates a tree that is dying. The trunk and main boughs begin to hollow out. The cupping is the tree's attempt to reinforce the boughs. An extended rain can add enough weight to the boughs to break them and, if more snap on one side, cause the tree to fall from losing enough counterweights.

 

[KellyFrancis]

From the upstairs pic, a branch appears to have some cupping. That's where the top of the branch goes out-of-round and develops a downward cleft. This indicates a tree that is dying. The trunk and main boughs begin to hollow out. The cupping is the tree's attempt to reinforce the boughs. An extended rain can add enough weight to the boughs to break them and, if more snap on one side, cause the tree to fall from losing enough counterweights.

The completely random things you know about never cease to amaze me, sir.

 

[Curtis Rouse]

Yea it's an older tree, 19' base circumference, but redwood pine trees can live forever. I think it snapped because it's been hot which makes sap expand. There was probably a sap pocket in the upper branch which caused the blowout.

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