Thursday, June 30, 2005

Another tree

Last Saturday another tree fell on our pickup truck. Well acually about a 3rd of a tree fell on the truck. There was a tree with 2 tops in the circle drive. Then it got very windy. I was standing over by the rabbit (a VW car, not the animal), as dad had just got back from the Art Station, and was watching when the top of the tree just kind of detatched from the trunk and fell down, through the power line, and onto the hood of the truck. The truck sort of jumped and rocked a little and the tree was leaning quite a lot in the other direction. The power line was laying on the ground. The mast for the power line was bent into a sort of L shape.
We called the power company and they said that they already had somebody in story to investigate a power outage. Around 6 o'clock or so 2 men showed up from over by Phillipses' old house. They said that when the tree fell it yanked the pole so hard that it pulled one of the main wires loose from the pole further back. They got back about 8 o'clock after fixing the wire on the other pole. They where here until about 10 and managed to string the power line on the ground to the house so that we would have power over the weekend.
Since the mast was bent and we had to replace it, not to mention that the insulation on the wires had been cut on the side of the mast, we had to have some electricians come and replace the wires and had to file some sort of permit too. We had a different pipe that was the same as the bent mast so when the electricians came Wednesday with the wire they where able to get it pretty much all set up. They even hooked the power back up temporarily so that we had power until the power people arriver about an hour later. They finalized it and made sure that everything was hooked up correctly.
The truck still runs, but we may have a little trouble getting the hood open. The tree also partially ripped the passenger side rear view mirror off. I think we need to find a different parking spot for the truck, as it has had 2 trees fall on it in the course of just a few months.

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