Remember The stump to the Banyan that fell on October 26 during Hurricane Ian?
this is What it looked like a few days ago.
enlarge to see how many pieces. it took 8 hour, 2 men to cut these pieces
A few days after the photos, I heard an explosion! then a 2nd one!
I ran out in the back yard, and it was the truck lifting these huge logs
dropping them one by one in dump truck.
Each one went BOOM!
We learned from a neighbor that when the tree turned over, the roots pulled up the water meter and all the pipes, see the white ribbon below? that is where the city is putting new meters
and the owner has to pay for the rest.
this stump turned up on its side and pulled it all out.. they put it back down and now have to figure out how to remove it, 3 weeks and counting to clean up one tree
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Today Sunday Nov 13th 2022. and on the 20th of November still the same stump and still just like this on 12/2/2022 |
Joining Rosy at Adventures of the LLB Gang for Nature Friday
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15 comments:
Thick trees like these are so strong and deep, sometimes when I walk down the streets near trees, I see the sidewalk lifting around their trunks.
There was a line of seven palms near my parents' building, where I used to live as a child. They towered all the way to the fifth floor. The city took them out one day because they were too close the to power cables of the electricity poles.
Good grief!! All these different huge stumps, it is amazing that any kind of wind could have blown it over!
wow... we never saw such a big tree.. and what damage the roots caused.... we hope all things end good and all pipes an stuff can get a fast repair...
That is huge. It sure did create a mess though. I can only imagine what the cost is going to be to the owner.
Hello,
How sad, to loose such a big beautiful tree. It does look like a mess now, I hope it is all cleared away. Take care, enjoy your weekend!
I bet your entire house vibrated with each drop.
Many years ago there was tree removal about 2 doors down from us. The truck was near our home each time the dropped something we vibrated..
Hugs Cecilia
FIRST, I'm totally besotted by your new header!
Not so much the damage to the water meter and pipes. Just seems wrong that the homeowner has to be responsible for that cost. But what do I know.
I love our trees, but after the recent storms Tom's talking about biting the bullet and having 3 enormous ones out back taken down.
Wow, massive. Hopefully their home insurance will pay the rest of that. Did you keep any of the wood to make something out of?
How in the world did the wind blow down that huge tree? It was massive. I understand it was the neighbor's tree - but isn't that going to be a huge expense? I feel for them.
I still get sad when I think of the poor Banyon tree....amd even more sad those owners had to pay to replace everything but the meter. I do hope they had good insurance!
Thanks for joining Nature Friday!
Amazing and powerful.
Removing that and water pipe repairs is going to cost a huge fortune. I hope the insurance will help those people out a bit..yikes.
Like others have said, the tree is so big I'm surprised it fell.
Heavy frost this morning with the temperature around 33F. Its not going to get any warmer than 50F. Guess Lynne and I will hunker down inside today for my eldercare stint. Sigh...
Sue
Wow! What a mess!! I was wondering if that wood could be burned as in firewood? Of course - ya'll probably don't use fireplaces much down there in Florida!
That's sad about the tree, and I feel sorry for your neighbors! I'm also glad you didn't get a more direct hit from Ian.
Amazing and scary about what may be going on underground when all seems okay. Thanks for the great photos that capture the magnitude of the work done and the cost to city and property owner.
I can't believe how big that tree was. That was a huge project. That's a shame that it pulled up the pipes.
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