Monday, March 30, 2009
Sparks went Flying
Well, gee whiz what a interesting end to a nonproductive day we have had! Matt decided to finally take a vacation day. However, to anyone who has heard this STILL involves at least half a day of working on the computer. Michaela stayed home from school "not" feeling well! (yeah good one!). So I snuck out for a few hours with a neighbor to research out a science project that is not going to work after all. My other neighbor down the way was cutting some trees down and I decided that it was time to cut down one of ours from Hurricane Ike. It was a smaller hardwood, but turned out to be VERY hardy one. We had the chainsaw and a four wheeler that we hooked chains and rope to to help pull the tree in the RIGHT DIRECTION..(Notice that I said the RIGHT direction!) So after what seemed like almost 30 minutes of chain sawing it started to drop in the WRONG direction!..I thought at first that it was going to land on our neighbor but he jumped out of the way at the last moment. Then I thought it was going to land on the back fence. IT missed the fence and I breathed a sigh of relief a little TOO soon.! The tree fell to the ground but before that , it hit the POWER LINE! I said a few choice words as we heard the loud boom and saw sparks FLYING through the area and a power line snap and fling into the neighbors yard. OH CRAP is what I was thinking we are in serious trouble. Come to find out that about 70 homes were without power and we finally have power back on after about 5 hours. We had a cool time hanging out with our neighbors and socializing. They said it was like back in the Ike days! ( I wouldn't know about that as I was living the good life in Dallas! So NOW I have to call our home insurance to see if they cover these kinda things and call the electricity company claim line and see what they are going to bill us for the down power line. I have thought SEVERAL times that I never have anything to blog about. And while I think this is blog worthy, I surely wished it did not happen and I can report on another endless boring day! Not so! I will have to post pics of the down tree and new power line (wishing I had a camera or something on when this happened) Stay tuned to our continuation!
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6 comments:
what an adventure, I am glad no one got hurt.
Yeah me too! The power line went flying into our neighbors backyard.. STILL waiting to find out how much we will be fined!
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha He He He He He!
I remember sitting without power on several occasions cusing at the people who cut their tree down on a powerline. you guys are too funny there is never a dull moment especially when matt's on vacation :) probably not funny when you get the bill though!
I said on facebook that I did not remember..However, If memory serves it was the guy on Portocall and we were thinking what an idiot..Well there ya go comes back full circle! I think our homeowner insurance will cover..Time will tell!
That is funny! I am glad that no one got hurt- and the part about having to pay is not funny- but the story as a whole is pretty comical only because that is something that would happen to me!
June 7th, UPDATE ON the "sparks went flying" ..WE do NOT owe money..WHOO HOO..But darn as of this date we still have a mess in the back yard to clean up. Would have been easier to do it MY way..Paying someone $350 to cut and clear!
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