Windy Weather
Jun. 7th, 2024 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse It's been stormy and windy here in Saint Paul for the past several days. We will have brief periods of sun, but then another storm will roll in.
Related to all that, probably the biggest excitement around these parts is that we had a giant branch come crashing down onto our garage roof a couple of days ago in one of these MANY wind and rain storms we've been having all week.
Mason and I went out to look at it when it came down and Mason sighed, "Well, there goes another paycheck." I was thinking the same thing, but luckily Shawn found a news article that noted that Xcel Energy will come and do limb removal from anywhere in your yard *if* the branch is a potential danger to their power lines. Luckily? This branch was precariously leaning on the line from the alley to our house. So, they came and removed the branch FOR FREE. I mean, technically, they "removed" it from the roof and the line and we still have a giant ass branch in our backyard that we have to figure out how to dispose of, but, honestly, that's something we can deal with ourselves, even if we just saw off bits of it over the next several months, you know?
Mason and I went out to look at it when it came down and Mason sighed, "Well, there goes another paycheck." I was thinking the same thing, but luckily Shawn found a news article that noted that Xcel Energy will come and do limb removal from anywhere in your yard *if* the branch is a potential danger to their power lines. Luckily? This branch was precariously leaning on the line from the alley to our house. So, they came and removed the branch FOR FREE. I mean, technically, they "removed" it from the roof and the line and we still have a giant ass branch in our backyard that we have to figure out how to dispose of, but, honestly, that's something we can deal with ourselves, even if we just saw off bits of it over the next several months, you know?
So, that worked out. And at least the branch didn't take out the power to our house. That would have been disastrous.
Hopefully all of you are staying safe and dry. The weather right now, outside my window, however, is insanely gorgeous!
Hopefully all of you are staying safe and dry. The weather right now, outside my window, however, is insanely gorgeous!