About 30 min later, he went to let the dogs out for a potty break and low and behold - a tree, OUR tree, had fallen. Well, at least a good chunk of it had fallen.
It was a tall, beautiful cottonwood and it just split about three feet from the ground, missing the house by about 2 feet and luckily the other half hasn't (knock on cottonwood) fallen yet or we'd have been shopping for a new camper... YIKES!!!! (Bryan is, as I type this, loading the camper on the truck and moving it out of harms way, we hope.)
Talked to the landlord and the tree is actually an 'engineered' cottonwood. It seems Albuquerque won't let you plant 'real' cottonwoods (you know that kind, the ones that actually produce cotton and make people's noses stop up every year?) anymore. But the new & improved (cottonless) cottonwoods don't have the strength or endurance of their native counterparts... sigh.
Hannah & Maggie are loving their new play toy, finding all kinds of treasures to bring into the house & shred.
Anyway, here's some photos of our exciting Friday night:
2 comments:
Oh, Raymona, that's too bad. I hate losing trees -- especially beautiful ones like that one. Interesting about the cottonless cottonwoods. I wonder why they bother producing them if they are weak?
No idea other than they don't produce cotton... but they do make these annoying black groups of balls that fall all over & make a mess...
Bryan just about has it cut up, we'll see what the landlord says about the remaining half... I'm not sure it can be saved since the split is so close to the ground.
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