There's three cops in front of my house

[jmowreader]

About half an hour ago I was sitting in my house writing a scandalous expose on Tom Tancredo when I heard a huge crash. One of my neighbor's trees fell over and is now laying in the middle of the road.

Now I have the whole street blocked off, three cops out there including a dog handler, the fire department just pulled up to get the fucking tree out of the street...good times all around.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Evidently when a tree falls in your forest, it does make a sound.

Why did it fall over? Are you getting bad weather, or did the tree just collapse from ennui?

[jmowreader]

2. High winds and rotten heartwood

The fire department got the tree out of the street, so the excitement is now over.

[hfojvt]

3. See, I probably would get my 36 inch bowsaw and go help

Two years ago, I think on memorial day we had a huge windstorm centered on my neighborhood. A tree crushed the car across the street and half of my humongous cottonwood came down. What a holiday that was, sawing and hauling. Worse yet, I had no power for most of the day, and thus no air conditioning or light or internets. They had power across the street from me though, so finally I got on my bike and went to where I work, took a shower and soaked in the air conditioning. Amazing how much wood there is in a tree.