Today there was some extremely strong winds in the northeast. they started around 5 or 6am EST time in the area that I live in. They were any where from 20MPH up to 50+MPH today. I saw a lot of downed trees around the area (one in particular was on a road from my house to the Interstate that completely blocked the road). Needless to say the fire department, electric company, phone company and cable company had their hands full today. When I got back from the store, I had an email from my parents. Their house was hit by an 80+ foot tree from their next door neighbor. Below are a couple of pictures. Not long after getting that email a friend of mine sent me a picture of his house where the siding had blown off of part of it and hit the neighbors house. I listened to the local fire band today and it was a non stop call of down trees all over the area.
What sucks is that you can’t see it in the middle picture but there are 2 or 3 more trees behind the point of view which are ready to fall over to from the winds and may hit my dad’s workshop. And in the last picture there are a couple of trees that are behind the point of view that may hit the front of my parents house. They have been on the neighbor for what seems like 20+ years to cut them down, but the next door neighbor would never do it, because her husband had planted them before he died. The bad part is he planted them 6 inches from the property line and they have caused nothing but problems for my parents.