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It looks like I spoke too soon about our trees coming through intact. DH went out at 11 to find that one of our tulip poplars was partly uprooted and leaning on a neighbor. The uprooted 100+ foot tree was aimed at the back of our house.

Oh my. Try finding a tree surgeon for an emergency visit in the aftermath of a hurricane while a tree is being uprooted by continuing high winds . . . I must have called half the numbers in the book, and was largely resigned to having the tree fall on the house. By some miracle, one of the tree guys took pity on us and inserted us into his schedule, showing up 10 minutes after I called. He and his helper managed to stablilize the tree and dropped both of these monsters safely in the back yard. It will be expensive, but nothing compared to the cost of having them fall on the house. I was very grateful to the tree surgeon. He has saved us untold grief and expense.

Can you claim the tree as a dependent and have it covered on your major medical policy? ;^)

Glad you saw that tree in time...... what a horrible mess that would have caused!

Good news about getting a tree company so fast. We drove around Great Falls trying to get into one of the riverside parks, and saw maybe a couple hundred downed trees, including several that were resting on powerlines, suspended over the road.

One very impressive fallen multi-line powerline, where the pole and crossbar and tree almost blocked the road, the insulators were smashed.

One that had fallen onto the roof of a two story house in a new subdivision, not much apparent damage, perhaps because the houses there are being made of that plywood stuff instead of 2x4s.

Tree company trucks everywhere, and the sound of chainsaws filled the air.