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Well I got hit by Hurricane Michael as a cat. 1 in my area, I provided a few snap shots of the tree damage to our place.
We have no trees around our house, so no damage to it. The counties over to the west of me got hit with cat. 2 wind gust. I could hear boom, boom, boom from the trees hitting the ground. The winds were howling and screaming like a mad storm, you could tell from the pressure in your ear drums.
3500 feet of my drive way into this place had tops of pine trees blown across it.
Those have been cleaned up.
The pine tree damage is way up in the thousands of $`s with possibly 100 plus pine tree tops blown out or blown down. Several oak trees are in my pond.
Rodney

A few more photo`s of the damage.
Rodney

Glad to hear that you are unscathed, Rodney

We do seem to have unbalanced Mother Nature !!

MichaelG.

Rodney,

Good to hear that you are safe.

I am surprised a category 1 hurricane can cause that much damage. I want to remove those two young oak trees in front my house, precisely for this reason. But I heard our HOA won't let us do that.

Thanks for the concerns, I got out without a scratch, other than all the scratches from the storm damage removal. And my old shoulders feel like toast.
Rodney

some of those pines must have been bent over like boomerangs. We had a small tornado go through the back of the farm, near to the river, a few years back. Didn't even notice it by the house., only around a mile away. The only evidence was a dozen uprooted mature red oaks; all within about 500 feet of another and only large red oaks, no other tree species, some of which were as large. It seems, that species of oak, anyway, is shallowly or weakly rooted. The trees were otherwise healthy. Lots of firewood, after a couple of years, although I regret not making the effort to retrieve them for saw logs....some were 30".