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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
They're only doing greenwaste bins bc they're running out of landfill space, I kid you not! They truck it to these big commercial composting operations, and just to incentivize people to use them, we get them for free, no monthly fee.
Eat your heart out!

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Wow. Who was responsible for some common sense legislation in your neck of California? I didn't know they built them that way on the West Coast. They're a keeper.

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Yeah. No kidding¡
Do you get the idea he was picking up house and garage debris too?
In any case, it sounds like a well- coordinated response.
I still can't imagine a storm that fierce. I've never experienced anything like that. It almost sounds ominous.

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I don't know. I'm certain that truck was capable of helping out with that work if they wanted to. It depends on what their focus was. There were so many trees down everywhere that I'm sure the two of those truck drivers could have had their hands full all week and still not come anywhere close to having it all done. There might have been several pairs of those guys all around my city and even in the other cities that got hit all at once without even factoring in people doing the houses. I would think that the fallen houses would probably be left for later, after the insurance companies came out to assess the damage first.

Yeah. I can't say I'm displeased at all.

There were 3 times as many houses without power in Illinois just a month or so ago when my Dad lost power for 3 days, but I think we were probably just hit way harder in a much smaller radius. I really think that a lot of the wait time was cutting down trees. I did notice that several hours before the power went on by us, they did have trucks coming by and people checking out everybody's houses. I think that was probably one last sweep that they were doing to check the power lines in case somebody was really sleeping our out-of-town and didn't report any line/tree issues by them. That's when I got them to re-anchor that power cable to the side of my house for free.


Yeah... It was so quick, but it was devastating. I can't imagine the whole episode was more than 5 minutes long from my perspective. It rained for a few hours afterward, but it was all calm after that brutal front left as quickly as it came.

Thank god that whole tree didn't fall on me this time and I really hope I put the fear in my neighbors to finally get it taken down before the next big storm. I hated saying what had to be said, but I've hated resenting them for that damn thing for all this time too. He seems cool, but he says his wife is pissed. That sucks, but they'd be a lot more pissed next year when that tree falls on me and they're being sued.

But if you look at the damage on both the street west of me and that east of me, it was as if Moses parted the sea on my block and it went around us on both sides. We had two roofs crashed in houses behind us and all those downed power lines and about 30 trees was just one block in front of us. I just found out the guy directly two blocks behind me who came and mowed my front lawn with his rider mower when I let it get too long last year had a tree fall on his house. Miraculously, it looks like there wasn't much more than some shingle and gutter damage.

I don't scare easy, but I was upstairs when that hail started coming down and you could hear all the booms going on outside. This one really had me worried there for a minute, especially when part of that tree slapped hard against my window with a force that still leaves me in awe that I didn't have a single broken window. It just sucks that all 3 of my windows on that side of the house have tears in the screens, when 5 days ago only the basement window did.

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Oh gosh no, no lawn clippings. Sorry to say I'm catching up on months and years of yardwork. My front yard has been in the process of being re-landscaped to a low water version since before I got sick, and without a lawn weeds just take off and grow pretty tall. Bc around here, if you water it, it grows 24/7/364.
I'm sure my neighbors hate me.

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To be fair, about 1/2 of my bin and bag usage this week was cleaning up about 2 prior years of pure neglect outside of mowing. I was already out there, filthy and wet. Might as well get it all done while I'm fully committed to it. My inner thighs are still on fire this morning though.

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But, to be fair to me, half of that was pine needles. The Canary Island pines that I planted cast the shade I was hoping for, I just didn't realize they came with so many needles!

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Pine needles??? Oh... That's why there's no clippings. You don't have any grass.

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Hahaha! I wish!
You accomplish more in an hour than I do in a week!
I'm following along with your home repair and renovation and decluttering and landscaping and emergency preparation and honestly I'm in awe.

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Bah. I'm pretty slow, but I'm thorough. I'm running out of time before I need to be finding a job that I don't absolutely hate, so I'm trying to get some pretty big things done before I do that. Two of those things should really help out in the future with storms. I really think my generator can probably power a TV, a computer and my internet along with teh sump and fridge, so next time this happens I might be out of power in style.



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Originally posted by Brenda:
Stay safe SIX. Oh and your neighbor is a dick.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Just OOC do you know what kind of tree it is?

It sounds kind of weak- wooded, but maybe just thinning it would help.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Stay safe SIX. Oh and your neighbor is a dick.

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I didn't miss this message from you Brenda, it just appears that I never replied. Sorry about that.

We're safe. Especially now. Just have to stay out of the heat for the next 4 or 5 days or so as much as possible is all now.



Did I truly paint my neighbor out to be a dick?

If I did that, I promise it is out of frustration.


Though there are two things I've held them in resentment for, which is the tree and being suckered into voting for a massive property tax increase for the local schools on an non-presidential primary where nobody votes and nobody knew that was even on the voting table. They were told it would raise our taxes $20 or $30 per year. It raised theirs about $200 and and mine close to $300 per year.

But overall they've been decent neighbors. The third thing that always bothered me is how lousy they took care of their lawn, but they've been paying a crew to do it this year and it usually looks better than mine now.

We hang out sometimes. I'm sure we'd hang out more if I tried being more friendly than I am, but when we do get together it's not a bad time.


I'd just had it when I saw all of that tree still against my house 2 days later without an attempt from them to move it or even a "sorry".

Maybe they still believe that it's on both of our properties, I don't know. It's not. I let them know it's not 4 or 5 years ago now. I would think that if they haven't looked into it themselves that it would behoove them to do so now.



And really, I can't be too mad about it... most people aren't empaths, nor do they even go about their day exercising a shred of empathy for other people since they're so wrapped up in their own little world. It's not their gutter that gets clogged up twice a year to the point of uselessness... and even if it were, they haven't had 2% of the water issues inside their house as I've had since I've been here. I might see their gutters cleaned out about once every 5 years because it isn't a big deal to them.

The seeds don't fall on their house or lawn, the tiny little leaves that the leaf blowers don't work on do not fall onto their yard or their gutters, and every time a limb falls off of it, it's either on my house or in my yard. They pulled two piddly ass branches to the curb compared to the 15% to 20% of the whole tree I had to get out of mine.

The tree isn't looking like it's bending 20% toward their house when the storms come in. It's always doing that to me.

I just had to let them know what's going to happen if that thing falls on me. It's so tall and so thick that there's zero chance it wouldn't absolutely flatten my entire house if it did.



I'm just hoping they do what's right now that they know the stakes. I don't want to make an enemy out of them.



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