we did get wind... this is the street a block from me...on the other side of the park.. an English Elm...
my rfiend from the park is cutting it up... by hand... he does have an assortment of lovely Silky pole saws.. and some he'd made...that cut this brittle wood up like butter.. I offered him my chain saw but he refused.. seems the trip a mile away to home depot to get two cycle oil was too much.. this tree grew between a large paved play area.. and the street... neither of which is good for getting water underneath .. so the roots grew laterally in the soil inbetween... and it had no roots going under the playground or road... so when it went down it fell over the unsupported side of the root ball
it did miss the house across the street by a foot or so...
there was another tree in the park that fell.. it was growing in the open.. so it had no absent root defence... just a pile of wind... this tree sits next to a big boulder they found in the middle of the street a few years ago.. a few blocks away.. so when they dug it up this lady I know got it put in the park
so that's the wind we endured here up in my roof garden... and I stick up above the canopy of these giant trees... in really clear air... ... without much incident
it did miss the house across the street by a foot or so...
