-=> Quoting Mike Roberts to Nancy Backus on 30 Oct 12  11:04:59 <=-   
      
    NB>> Except that we've already had a number of instances this year of very   
    NB>> high winds and heavy rains... and I'd suspect that most of the dead   
    NB>> or weak branches and trees have already been culled from those   
      
    MR> It was the point they kept making about the north winds and the fact   
    MR> that our  trees were not adapted up here for north winds, They were   
    MR> saying that the  root systems here are dug in for west/ south winds.   
    MR> North winds place the  pressure on the weakest part of the trees root   
    MR> system. I did lose branches  but nothing big. It was much milder than   
    MR> some of our winter storms. I was  just very cautious about those huge   
    MR> pines and the north wind. Quite a few  trees did go down, but I think   
    MR> only 1 on a house locally in perinton.    
      
   Sometimes I think that the forecasters, and even more so the announcers   
   that gleefully report the bad news, make things sound worse than they   
   really are or will be, just to get people's attention.  Our trees have   
   probably adapted some to north winds, just not as much as to the winds   
   from the south and the west, since those are what we usually get...  But   
   we get the north and east winds often enough that the trees will have   
   had to adapt some...  Up at the Pond, that would be more of an issue,   
   with huge trees having very shallow root systems, due to the bedrock   
   only a few feet (or in some instances, inches) down, and yet, we rarely   
   have trees down in even the worst storms... I guess that's helped me   
   have more respect for tree root systems...     
      
    NB>> We'll all hope that things stay relatively stable despite the storm.   
      
    MR> Muchas Gracias! Minor Damage in the city and no deaths due to the   
    MR> storm. In  the shadow of what others have gotten, we were truly blessed   
    MR> here.    
      
   Indeed.  :)   I was most concerned about MJ losing power, with her on 4   
   liters of oxygen, but they didn't even have a flicker.  Today, she was   
   laughing, having predicted that it wouldn't be as dire as predicted, at   
   least here.     
      
   ttyl        neb   
      
   ... Having given up in my search for reality, I seek now a good fantasy.   
   --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.20   
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