Watch Out For Falling.... Trees!

Last week one of the 6 huge cypress trees lining the edge of a neighbor's property came down - and landed right on the house! There were two people inside the house at the time, but fortunately nobody was hurt.

Strangely, Stephen and I walked right by the place twice after it happened and didn't notice - mostly because there was so much overgrown brush and weeds that the whole thing was camouflaged.  But on Friday the tree removalists came and started the process of cutting up the trunk and hauling it all away (as well as removing one more of the cypress trees - one which looked particularly threatening).

Afterward the owner hammered plywood sheets to cover where the walls were flattened and draped plastic tarps over the roof (shown above).

I'm used to the idea that our gum trees sometimes come down - or will drop huge limbs from high up in the forest canopy. But I don't really think about other trees - although there was a huge oak that fell on a house along Monbulk Road a little over a year ago.