I'm glad that I don't have many trees on my property, one small one in the front yard (which does a nice job blocking my bedroom window so my neighbors don't see me doing things), and a bigger one in the backyard although not big enough or close enough to hit my house if it fell (it's also very healthy looking). Growing up we had a HUGE tree in the backyard fall, it fell on an angle that let it just miss the house during a huge snow storm. Had it fell 20 degrees difference, it probably would have done serious damage to the house. I remember the root came out creating a huge hole in the ground and I would chill in it while the tree was still down which created like a cool hiding spot until people came to chop it up and then we had many years worth of firewood.