Yesterday here in Seattle, we had a big wind storm in the afternoon and into the evening. I left my office to work at my home office in the middle of the afternoon and came home to find my large King Maple tree blown down in my backyard.
There used to be two green Adirondack chairs here, the one to the right you can't see because it's been crushed. I used to sit in the crushed one and look out over my small pond, patio and garden. I was lucky that the tree did not fall onto my garden shed (or house!) the tree was caught by my Empress tree so the shed was saved. But my favorite place to sit and enjoy my garden is gone....
In the grand scheme of severe weather damage in the past 24 hours in the U.S. mine is small, but still...I will miss my garden spot.
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Me too! It was kind of a scary evening until the winds died down around 8:30 or so. I even parked my car in a different spot when I came home (before I knew about the King Maple falling down) because most of my trees have not lost their leaves.
Still having leaves on them makes them more vulnerable (greater surface area, like sails on a boat) to being pushed over in high winds. Our windstorms are usually later in the winter time after all the deciduous trees have lost their leaves.
Hi Rhonda, well first I have a major clean up!
I am not sure, I want the area to be a little protected (cozy) and the tree had a lot of girth. Unfortunatley blogging has overtaken gardening! Although I had imagined blogging while sitting in that spot once I set up a wireless system...oh well!
Look at the bright side, now you get to plan a new area, bigger and better.