![]() The one I lost was the most robust, kind of the frontman of the trio. I can never watch.Īs a result, they aren’t exactly what you would call landscape specimens, but whenever it snows, they make for a pretty Northwoods-in-Allouez backdrop. Every couple of years, all three get a brutal haircut at the hands of the energy company tree trimmers. Some well-meaning homeowner put them in as a screen, forgetting that as they grew they would be competing with the power lines above them. It’s one of three evergreens planted across the back of my property long before I moved in. I'm a tree lover, so I'm sad about my tree. He had 20 more places to stop. The first words I heard on the other end of the phone from my longtime insurance agent’s office: “Is everybody OK?” Someone from the tree trimming service was at my door to take a look less than two hours after I called at 7:30 a.m. All things we know but sometimes lose sight of amid all the daily noise of life. Tragedies like the one in Kentucky and the four other states impacted by the path of those tornadoes offer some much-needed perspective. I was able to shake my head at the mess and come back in a warm house with a lit Christmas tree, two oblivious cats and a fully stocked refrigerator. My tree didn’t land on my house or my car. What they wouldn’t give to deal with storm damage like mine. Loved ones, homes, pets, downtowns, livelihoods, churches, every family photo, every treasured Christmas ornament. Those people didn’t lose a tree or a part of a fence, they lost everything. ![]() Then I remembered Kentucky and the horrible images of total destruction in Mayfield and Dawson Springs from the Dec. That seems to fall squarely in “Oh, woe is me” and “Bah! Humbug!” territory. A week before Christmas and now I have to deal with getting a tree removed and the fence fixed and the daunting process of insurance claims, deductibles and estimates. My next inclination was to whine/grumble/complain - all things, if we’re being honest, we’ve gotten pretty good at in the last two years, as things move slower, come with more hurdles and require more patience. RELATED: Live updates on rare December weather in Wisconsin RELATED: Power out, many trees down in parts of Brown County after high winds ![]() I suspect I stood there looking on in disbelief for at least a minute or more, until another gust reminded me that making sad faces under a canopy of large trees was probably not the best place to be at the moment. The winds took it out at the roots and toppled it over my fence. Where a sizable evergreen once stood was nothing but a gaping hole of angry, gray December sky. The Christmas wreath was still on the front of the house and somehow the bow wasn’t three streets away. A lone garbage cart up the street rode it out curbside and was still upright. wondering just what was all going on out there.Īfter record high temperatures in the 60s on Wednesday and warnings of dangerous winds to come, I expected to see a yard and maybe a neighborhood littered with branches and debris. The kind of force that had you wide-eyed at 4 a.m. Like a lot of homeowners, I was leery to pull up the blinds on Thursday morning for fear of what I might see after winds howled with unnerving ferocity overnight. View Gallery: Damage in Green Bay area after strong winds move through area ![]()
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