!00 year old Red oak

That's a shame. We will be doing the same. We will be adding 450 sq feet to our patio and adding a 12 x 24 covered pergola. Our 6 year old 3" diameter pear tree, that never produced a pear that was tolerable, is coming down. Squirrels loved the pears.

That is sad that it had to be torn down. I have a likely 100+ year old maple in my front yard, but it's hollow. You can see it with every branch cut off. It seems stable, for now, but I'm afraid it's going to fall on someone's roof some day (mine or my neighbors). Alternatively, it could cross the street and wipe out the 24 hour laundromat (but that wouldn't be so bad -- why do people need to be loud doing laundry at

The old oak sounds like the one that stood in front of the farmhouse where my mother grew up. That tree was closer to 72 inches in diameter last I saw it - and was more than 48inches when Grand-dad bought the farm back in 1929. Mom remembers it being struck by ligtning several times as the farmstead was on the top of a rise and the tree was by far the tallest object for miles. Estimates when the farm was sold in '63 was the tree was over 350 years old and had been a full grown tree when the farmstead was established.

Be happy. Last year a hurrican went through here and damaged one of my pine trees. Before they had the power back on the town was after me to have it removed on pain of a $200/day fine.

Wow - that's a big oak ! Did it make the Waterloo County Big Tree survey ? We had a giant weeping willow that was # 1 <weeping willow >

back in the ~ late 80's iirc. The last big limb off the main trunk finally came down a few years ago. In the late 90's a limb came down that was well over 3 feet diameter .. They used a formula to rate them - girth (x) feet up & height. A quick google search turned up this link for the 2011 tree hunt :

The farm is just down river from the Conestoga dam on the left side of the river at the end of the side-road that would lead to Glen Allen if it crossed the river

Sounds like a place to NOT be living...

Sounds reasonable to me, if it fell or could soon fall on the public right of way.

Yep. Anywhere but here beckons.

I can't blame you, yikes.

Well California, Lake Tahoe, or Greenville, does not seem better. Fires in California destroyed over 10,000 buildings in 2020.

How many buildings were destroyed in the California fires 2020?

There are 14+ million houses in california, not counting commercial buildings or outbuildings (sheds, barns, etc).

Note that a significant fraction of those 10,000 structures were barns, sheds, vacation homes and a couple of wineries.

The big fires affect mainly lightly populated remote areas of the state, and for all that they sound big (> 100 square miles), consider that

Lake Tahoe is smokey, but the winds have died down and they've kept the fire (south of South Lake) from the tahoe communities so far and barring an unexpected change in the weather, it's likely that it will not approach closer to south lake (but it may burn further east into Nevada (desolate and unpopulated territory for the most part)).

You have me sold. Now, if you reduce taxes by, oh, 100% and get rid of the needles and feces on the street...

Actually, we don't want _you_ here. Stay where you are if the myths bother you.

(Hint to everyone else, KRW is still full of s*it and knows nothing about California).

WE? It's nice that you think you're God, like every other communist.

Of course you lie, like all communists. It's in the genes.

Sounds Like Florida. They raise revenue in a lot of towns there by aggressive fines.

All he needs to know about California is who they elected as governor, who they elected to the congress and senate. Of course, there is an excellent chance these crooked fools were not actually elected, but installed via massive voter fraud.

Also, their success can be summed up by the fact so many people moved out of California that they lost a congressional seat. This despite huge numbers of alien invaders entering the state, and ignoring the crooks in charge surely knew this would happen and would have done everything the could to cook the books on the census to prevent it from happening.

Kevin, like the proverbial blind squirrel occasionally gets the nut.

Scott on the other hand, doesn't.