https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/be-careful-what-you-pray-forarboricide-edition Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:50:16 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/be-careful-what-you-pray-forarboricide-edition#post-1583187 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 05:47:42 +0000 JAileen 1583187@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Joy, this was a strange phenomenon. Usually the oaks and maples have lost their leaves before the first snow, but we had a very late fall this year, and then an early snow. The local ski resorts have all opened, and usually they are lucky if they open by Thanksgiving. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/be-careful-what-you-pray-forarboricide-edition#post-1583160 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 04:32:44 +0000 Anonymous 1583160@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>We get tree breaking snow or ice storms every few years. Bradford pears lose their leaves late and are especially vulnerable. No one is planting them anymore. You are very lucky not to have damage. The power companies come through and massacre trees anywhere near power lines in anticipation of these storms since limbs falling on lines can mean massive power outages. It's a wonder there are any trees left. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/be-careful-what-you-pray-forarboricide-edition#post-1582844 Thu, 12 Nov 2015 03:32:15 +0000 JAileen 1582844@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lara, thanks for sharing. Your husband dodged a bullet! The pics with yellow leaves are from our neighbors' Silver Maple. It dropped a lot of huge branches in our yard. If we or our dogs had been out there, wham! It would have all been over. The neighbor who lost a tree also had her car damaged by fallen limbs. Another friend called this event "Arboreal Armageddon". I guess this storm is now causing tornados in the midwest. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/be-careful-what-you-pray-forarboricide-edition#post-1582815 Thu, 12 Nov 2015 02:14:30 +0000 Anonymous 1582815@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>We had something similar happen to us here in se PA 4 years ago ( before Sandy - that is another story) in late October while the trees still had leaves. My DH was in his upstairs office and watched the Bradford pear tree heading towards him. Luckily, it was deflected by the deck. This was during an ice storm in October. I lost a few birches from that storm as well and limbs from a neighbor's maple came down on his next door neighbor's cars which were parked in their driveway. The neighbors whose cars were crushed were away on a 2 week cruise at the time. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/be-careful-what-you-pray-forarboricide-edition#post-1582687 Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:22:27 +0000 JAileen 1582687@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Meredith, thank you. This is especially hard because I love trees. The one in the third picture we started from an acorn. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/be-careful-what-you-pray-forarboricide-edition#post-1582684 Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:15:26 +0000 Meredith 1582684@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>No! So sad. We lost our aspens one year after an early snowfall. They didn't split, but bent all the way into our neighbor's yard and against their house so we had to cut them down. I feel your pain. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/be-careful-what-you-pray-forarboricide-edition#post-1582682 Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:13:51 +0000 JAileen 1582682@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Aida, thank you. Actually we're having bright sunshine today, no rain. The third picture was our tree with a broken branch. The tree in the first two pictures is ours also, but had no damage, fortunately. The huge branches on the ground are from our neighbor's tree that landed in our yard. I can't even move them. Fortunately they didn't land on our house or on us, just on some shrubs and a poor peach tree. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/be-careful-what-you-pray-forarboricide-edition#post-1582678 Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:04:43 +0000 Aida 1582678@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Those poor trees! Hopefully the snow yields to rain for a while so they can recover somewhat. Good that your own didn't have too much damage. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/be-careful-what-you-pray-forarboricide-edition#post-1582640 Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:31:46 +0000 JAileen 1582640@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have been praying for the Godzilla El Nino the experts have been predicting. We've been in a drought for four years, and our water supplies are running low and it's scary. We also had a late fall. The fall color here was really nice. Then we had an early snow storm. I measured from 3 to 6 inches in our yard. We've had far more snow before, but usually the trees have lost their leaves. Not so this time. Thus, arboricide. Only one of our trees suffered damage, but our next door neighbor's trees lost limbs that are themselves the size of small trees, and the neighbor two doors down lost an entire tree. And this happened all over town. </p>