We've been so lucky!

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Awhile back we had a pretty nasty storm. The wind was so bad it broke one of our big pine trees.. about 10 feet or so of the top of the pine tree fell down. This pine tree was right next to our bedroom window.. but thankfully the part that broke fell the other direction and landed in the yard, causing no damage. If it had gone a few feet further it would have landed on my car.. if it had fallen the other way it would have crashed right into our bedroom, and onto our bed with us sleeping in it. When hurricane Sandy was coming, we cut the 2 pine trees down to avoid any possible damage. We figured after that we'd be totally safe from all trees.. nothing else near enough to our house to cause any worry. Then last Wednesday night we got another nasty storm. It was very windy. There's an old tree right next to my driveway, I think it's like a cherry blossom tree.. but it's really old and very much overgrown. Not very nice to look at anymore. Thursday morning while we were getting ready to get the kids off to school I heard some noises outside. There was a big truck and a little plow type thing that comes around and plows our sidewalks. They were clearing the sidewalk as half of our cherry tree had fallen down and part of it was sticking out into the road. We went out to investigate.. and the entire limb of the tree was lying right next to my car, with another limb right behind the car. It just barely missed the car by just a few inches. The limbs were heavy enough that they could have crushed the car when they fell. Again, we got very lucky!! In the spring hubby will take that cherry tree down too.