Then out of the blue, we had a serious storm hit the community I live in, and I am about to lose two trees in my yard, one of which will fall onto my house and my garage. 80MPH Sideline winds, torrential down pour, and thunder/lightning. They classified it as a microburst.
I spent as much time I could in the little free time I had to move all the body panels I could fit out to my yard shed (lawnmowers pushed outside) and then brought all the parts from the upstairs of my garage to the bottom floor. If the tree falls, it will definitely hit the up stairs section and could possibly take the whole garage down. This is not a small tree! There is a giant widow maker that broke off from 40 feet up, and is wedged inside the fingers of the tree.
The root system of this tree was lifting out of the ground. Like a heart beating! It may not be easy to see, but the brownish color in the ground is actually where the ground lifted, and settled again. The whole tree is leaning towards the garage and there is a disturbance of two feet from the roots lifting out of the dirt. The grass is just a thin skin holding on.
I have to wait till 1 July before the trees come down. They just need to hold on and I need to be calm. I would be a bit devastated if I lost my garage to this tree and the equipment and vehicle pieces inside. I have no where else to put them right now. I may go rent a big trailer and load it all and park it at the base. But there doesn't appear to be any rain in the forecast till Tuesday. Its the wind I worry about. We get some heavy winds in the area all the time.
