In my city, they’re starting to pass out dry ice, which I’m taking as not a very good sign for those people who’ve lost power. (We’re okay, so fingers crossed we stay that way.) It’s a mess around here. Early Saturday, part of our neighbor’s tree fell across his driveway into our yard. As Zoo said, it hasn’t been a really good year for the foliage in our yard. Add 2 bushes and 2 more trees down, as well as parts of our fence, but it’s nothing in comparison to what’s happened around us.
I will, of course, still bitch about it. Just not a lot. But you all understand.
When we lost all our trees a few weeks ago, I put in for a homeowner’s claim – I really didn’t think they’d be covered but we’ve (luckily) never had to put in a claim and I figured I’d try. It was denied, and I asked, since we’re getting new trees, why / how they’d be covered.
The woman said, “Well, they’d have to be destroyed by an explosion, fire, an aircraft crashing into them, or they’d have to be run down by a vehicle not registered to you.”
And I’m thinking, dude, if any of those things are happening, I’m worried about a lot more than my trees. But hey, I guess that kind of puts it all in perspective.
When I told Zoo, he said, Maybe we can borrow some parts from a local airport and scatter them throughout the trees.
LOL re scattering airplane parts among the trees!
And I totally get the continued bitching (just not as much). I’m the same way.
Bitching is kind of soothing in it’s own way, right?
LOL I think if you started scattering airplane parts around you would have CNN hovering over your house in helicopters and reporters trampling what is left of the foliage Steph!
Oh my, poor you – bitch away – I would. Insurers always have that “fine print” that excuses them from paying for stuff don’t they?
I hope all the other trees stay where they should be.
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Lea, could you imagine!? They’d trample the only bushes that are left.
Seriously, my yard looks like a T-Rex walked through it.
Ohmygosh, too funny
Someday, I would love to meet that man of yours!!
Good luck with the rest of the trees
Catherine
Catherine, he’s crazy. I worry. It’s a good even each other out match, I think.
Old trees out tomorrow, hopefully new ones planted on Wednesday. *fingers crossed*
Loved Zoo’s idea of how to solve the insurance claim issues…lol…hopefully nothing else will happen to your yard this year….
Seriously, Maria…it already looks like who did it and ran…
Stephanie good luck with the new trees and I can pretty much say that you have one inventive SO there… Too bad the insurance clause of course excuses the expense of you replacing what should clearly fall under a home owners property damage policy, those little dickens have it all figured out you pay and they don’t!!!
Take care and go ahead and Bitch some more, it will relieve some of the angst and plus it’s fun to read when someone else does it, LOL….
jackie b central texas
LOL, Jackie – bitching among friends is fun
I wonder if they would cover it if the damage was done by Gus. I know my Weim certainly does a lot of yard rearranging. Unfortuantely, like my car, she is registered to me….just thinking….might be easier than getting airplane parts.
OMG – I should see if they cover Weim damage. Gus does like to dig holes…and he likes to eat sticks. And trees to him are really big sticks…
Yeah…it’s that whole ‘acts of God’ thing that’s never covered.
We lost a craptastic amount of trees a few years back in a major ice storm. Didn’t even bother to file a claim. We knew better. When the weather cleared Charlie just got out there with his chain saw. Wasn’t a fun time, but hey, we got one hell of a lot of firewood out of it. Oh, and our dogs enjoy running around the back yard with all the pieces of wood. (See me rolling my eyes here?) But one should always look for that silver lining in a disaster….firewood and chew toys for the dogs. Heh.
That’s exactly it – a craptastic amount. I should’ve reported it to homeowner’s that way…
Gus LOVES the branches. He runs around with them in his mouth like he’s king of the world.
I don’t even think I can use these trees for firewood – too pine branchy and stuff. Well, beyond the fact that our flue is off and we can’t use the fireplace b/c we smoke out the house…*g*