More Trees

It happened again.  Yesterday, at around 6:00 pm and without warning, another tree fell in the neighborhood, taking down the power lines and leaving me without electricity for about three hours.  Fortunately, this one managed to miss striking my, or anyone else's, house.

The spooky thing is the tree fell when it wasn't even raining or windy.  A thunderstorm passed through several hours earlier, but at the time the tree fell, it was calm outside.  And the tree that fell wasn't visibly damaged or susceptible prior to the fall.  It's just another sign that any random tree might fall down at any random moment.  You can never feel safe or secure - one might fall in three weeks, or three days, or right this moment.  It can fall anywhere.  Disturbingly, this one fell in an uphill direction, reminding me that I'm not safe even from those trees downhill from me.

Kudos to Georgia Power Company for a quick response.  The tree feel around 6:00, they were on site by 7:00, and power was restored before 9:00 pm.  It wasn't even fully dark yet.

But these trees, man, these trees . . .