{"id":137,"date":"2007-03-01T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/03\/01\/timber\/"},"modified":"2007-03-02T04:23:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T12:23:13","slug":"timber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/03\/01\/timber\/","title":{"rendered":"Timber!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I was hanging around the house (Kat’s place in NC) this afternoon. Brushing my teeth, in fact.<\/p>\n

I heard this loud smashing noise. I thought maybe the guy upstairs had part of his loft collapse with a bunch of furniture and maybe a toolbox on it. I wandered outside to see what was going on.<\/p>\n

It took me a minute to process… a tree had fallen down. That’s bad.<\/p>\n

A big<\/strong> tree. That’s worse. Onto the downstairs neighbour’s SUV. Really bad.<\/p>\n

The way it fell was quite amazing. There are three cars parked there: upstairs, us, downstairs. The tree was closest to the upstairs car. The trunk fell maybe 8 inches behind his bumper, and our bumper.<\/p>\n

Then there was a fork in the tree (so it was wider), and the downstairs SUV (which stuck out more). The SUV got, well, smooshed. I’m guessing that the salvageable parts are: two front tires, a few parts of the engine.<\/p>\n

There was no damage to the other two cars. Our car is covered with chunks of window\/skylight that kersploded off her car, but that’s it.<\/p>\n

I phoned 911 because I wasn’t sure about the gas tank. They sent around a police patrol. He looked at it, wrote some notes for a report, and left a card for her. Then he walked back to his car, came back, and took some pictures with his cell phone.<\/p>\n

My thought process: “A phone’s camera isn’t good enough for evidence. Why doesn’t he have a proper camera? Oh! He’s taking the pictures to show his buddies!”<\/p>\n

I managed to get a few pictures<\/a> in the dark with our camera. I’ll try to get some more in the morning.<\/p>\n

The frightening thing is that it wasn’t windy or stormy. There was light drizzle, but that’s about it. Pretty much, her car got smote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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