Trees, Trees, and More Trees, OH MY!!!!

So this is where we live.

In a very wooded area, just outside of Washington D.C., believe it or not.

This County we live in do not believe in cutting down trees unless you have a very good reason for doing so.

And in this community, not sure if it's a County Law, but in this community we live in, you cut a tree down on your property you have to replace it with another.

Because as you can see we're lacking in trees.

Now don't get me wrong, I love trees, I love how it keeps us cooler in the summer here.

We have lovely views from our deck and windows

 

Trees:

 

Trees:

 

And more trees:

 

And it's beautiful.

But when a storm comes through, and not just rain, a severe storm it scares me half to death because a lot of these trees are very tall and old.

They built this community in the middle of the woods here.

So when it storms and you see these large trees swaying side to side it makes you sick because you're just waiting to hear or see a tree going down.

And it has happened. We've been here two years and so far we've been OK

BUT NOT LAST NIGHT!!!

Storm suddenly came, winds picked up, rain coming down so hard you could hardly see out, the trees were bending way too much for me not to be frightened, then the lights went out!

Suddenly I see this black shadow go past our living room windows and I just braced myself to see what that was and where was it going

Then a loud crashing sound and this is what we saw

 

 

Believe it or not, it's not a tree, it's a tree limb, that's how large these trees are.

It shattered our table, crushed a chair and broke another chair.

Split our pine tree and it's hanging over the fence.

The fence seems to be OK.

Hmmm, will the Insurance cover a new table and chairs?

We'll see.

But all is OK, we're fine, the house is fine, it could of been a lot worse.

UGH, these storms are getting really scary and violent.