Storm Watch 2008!

A tree falls on your house while breaking down your new fence.

Hmmm, what a day it was last Friday….

Did you hear about the storms in California? Specifically in Sacramento where I am? I know it hardly compares to tornados or floods and stuff like in other areas of the country, but it’s probably the scariest thing and worst thing that’s happened to me in any of my homes before!

Of course, I knew it was going to fall. That’s the worst part. I could hear the tree leaning on the fence, it made noise up against my living room wall. I kept going out looking to see if it would hold; one time even running for my life thinking it was going to fall ON ME!

I pulled out all the tree guys and tree companies I had info on and started dialing. With the huge storm in the works they all said “is it an emergency? because all we are working on are emergencies?”

I said, “well, no, not yet but it will be within the hour! it’s going to blow!”

Finally, I reached two guys and told them both to come – who knows who would get there first or could get started helping right away.

By the time they had gotten there, the tree had fallen and scared the daylights out of me. I kept watching the news channel and seeing all the trees falling on homes and buildings all over town – leaving big gaping holes in the roofs. That could be me! Boy am I grateful that no major damage happened to my roof; I can handle the yard mess and building a new fence but not having to worry about flooding in my house and living situation. I Thank God.

One guy took the time and climbed on the roof to cut the tree off the roof at least – just in time before he broke the chain on his saw thing!

The other one came back with a crew to cut down the other half of the leaning tree (just in case).