DTF Chat Thread v. "The Aristocrats!"

[Prog Snob]

Three and a half hours left until my weekend begins.

[jjrock88]

 

[Chino]

Got up at 5 this morning to piss and the wind was seriously whipping. Damn near had a heart attack when a tree landed on my house mid-piss.

[King Postwhore]

How big of a tree Brian?

[Chino]

How big of a tree Brian?

Pretty good size. It was dead and I was planning on having it taken down this spring. I guess I get to save some money now. It snapped about 14-16 feet off the ground, and where it broke was probably 12-14 inches in diameter. The backyard and the top of my house look like a war zone. No damage to the house as far as I can tell. Looks like the tree hit and just blew apart. There are massive chunks of wood scattered all over the roof.

[ReaperKK]

Morning gang

[BlobVanDam]

Morning Reaper.

[ReaperKK]

What's happening blob?

[BlobVanDam]

Just the usual. What are your plans for this.............. *checks day* Thursday?

[ReaperKK]

Nothing much, just going to clean up around the house. Go to work and give my two weeks notice which is always really uncomfortable.

[mikeyd23]

How big of a tree Brian?

Pretty good size. It was dead and I was planning on having it taken down this spring. I guess I get to save some money now. It snapped about 14-16 feet off the ground, and where it broke was probably 12-14 inches in diameter. The backyard and the top of my house look like a war zone. No damage to the house as far as I can tell. Looks like the tree hit and just blew apart. There are massive chunks of wood scattered all over the roof.

Glad you guys are okay. We had a tree do exactly this a couple weeks ago. It was mostly dead and it snapped about 12 feet up, came down next to my house and hit my car in the driveway. It motivated me to pay tree trimmers to come in this week and cut a bunch of stuff back away from our house. We basically live at the end of our street bordering a forest. So they cut a bunch of stuff away behind and beside my house and are trimming a couple in the front yard to control the size.

The wind was insane here too last night. Even though we had all that stuff cleared away a couple days ago, I still couldn't sleep last night. That was some of the strongest wind I remember in a long, long time.

[King Postwhore]

How big of a tree Brian?

Pretty good size. It was dead and I was planning on having it taken down this spring. I guess I get to save some money now. It snapped about 14-16 feet off the ground, and where it broke was probably 12-14 inches in diameter. The backyard and the top of my house look like a war zone. No damage to the house as far as I can tell. Looks like the tree hit and just blew apart. There are massive chunks of wood scattered all over the roof.

No damage to the roof?  I had a huge Oak tree fall on our house and it went trough the roof.  I have pictures on Facebook.  I should post a few to show you.

[King Postwhore]

Just the usual. What are your plans for this.............. *checks day* Thursday?

Why am I not shocked you had to check?

Morning.

[BlobVanDam]

Just the usual. What are your plans for this.............. *checks day* Thursday?

Why am I not shocked you had to check?

Morning.

I don't have any shows to watch on Thursday, so I have no frame of reference!

[King Postwhore]

 

Blob time.

It's like a TV Dial.

Since we got the DVR I never watch show the day it airs for the most part.

[BlobVanDam]

Blob time.

It's like a TV Dial.

Since we got the DVR I never watch show the day it airs for the most part.

I watch everything as soon as I can (not like I have anything else to do). When I wake up coincides well with when the night's shows have finished airing in the US and been uploaded, so it's the first thing I do.

[King Postwhore]

My DVR is at 58% so I have about 95 shows still to watch.

[BlobVanDam]

Lightweight.

[Chino]

How big of a tree Brian?

Pretty good size. It was dead and I was planning on having it taken down this spring. I guess I get to save some money now. It snapped about 14-16 feet off the ground, and where it broke was probably 12-14 inches in diameter. The backyard and the top of my house look like a war zone. No damage to the house as far as I can tell. Looks like the tree hit and just blew apart. There are massive chunks of wood scattered all over the roof.

No damage to the roof?  I had a huge Oak tree fall on our house and it went trough the roof.  I have pictures on Facebook.  I should post a few to show you.

None that I can see. I went in the attic and checked and all looked alright. I'll take a better look tonight after work. Like I said, this tree was super dead. It should have fallen years ago but it was being held up by a nearby pine. As soon as it hit the house it shattered like glass. Had it been a relatively healthy tree filled with a lot of water and weight, it probably would have done more.

How big of a tree Brian?

Pretty good size. It was dead and I was planning on having it taken down this spring. I guess I get to save some money now. It snapped about 14-16 feet off the ground, and where it broke was probably 12-14 inches in diameter. The backyard and the top of my house look like a war zone. No damage to the house as far as I can tell. Looks like the tree hit and just blew apart. There are massive chunks of wood scattered all over the roof.

Glad you guys are okay. We had a tree do exactly this a couple weeks ago. It was mostly dead and it snapped about 12 feet up, came down next to my house and hit my car in the driveway. It motivated me to pay tree trimmers to come in this week and cut a bunch of stuff back away from our house. We basically live at the end of our street bordering a forest. So they cut a bunch of stuff away behind and beside my house and are trimming a couple in the front yard to control the size.

The wind was insane here too last night. Even though we had all that stuff cleared away a couple days ago, I still couldn't sleep last night. That was some of the strongest wind I remember in a long, long time.

I'm caught in this internal dilemma of investing money into the property like that or just moving.

[mikeyd23]

I'm caught in this internal dilemma of investing money into the property like that or just moving.

I feel you, I've been stressed for weeks since that tree fell at our place. We are 1 1/2 years into a 30 year mortgage though, so I made the decision to invest in the property, pay the tree trimmers and make the house as safe as possible. Like you said, it pretty much takes a tree being mostly dead for that to happen under fairly normal weather situations, we got rid of those and now just have healthy trees on our property.

Still scared the crap out of me though. Like I said, I've been stressed ever since, which is not like me at all.

[hefdaddy42]

Morning, all.

We had thunderstorms last night as well, although they weren't overly severe.

[King Postwhore]

It was 65 degrees yesterday tomorrow, highs in the low 20's.  Crazy.

Lightweight.

Downloader, please.

[Hyperplex]

Near 80 yesterday, 50 today, possible snow squalls tomorrow.

[cramx3]

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.

[axeman90210]

Greetings everybody.

[King Postwhore]

What's up Bill?

[Kotowboy]

Morning, all.

We had thunderstorms last night as well, although they weren't overly severe.

I love all storms... It was lovely and windy last night. I hate winter - but I think that if we must have winter - i'd rather have snow and gales and rain. Make it worthwhile.

Have a few awesome storms.. Not just drizzly rain and grey skies.

The windows were rattling last night and the extractor fans in my kitchen were flapping like crazy. 

And I was in a warm bed just listening to it all . Nice.

[axeman90210]

What's up Bill?

Not much. Another day at the office. Getting together with a couple friends for beers after work, which should be good. You?

[King Postwhore]

Friday, Lisa gets out at 3pm so dinner date and seeing Logan.  Then early Saturday morning I'm getting my car inspected, haircut and seeing dad.  Sunday is a lazy day with food shopping and seeing dad.

[jingle.boy]

Oh, hai chat thread.  So good to see you my friend ... it's been a while.  Time to begin to heal the wounds of self denial.

[BlobVanDam]

Hey. I've missed having you around! Wish it was under better circumstances, but still happy to see you.

[King Postwhore]

Morning gents and Zydar.

[Zydar]

Yo bitches. And king.

[JayOctavarium]

Hello all

Its almost 4 AM. Why am I still awake?

[King Postwhore]

Hey Zydar and zombies and 4am Jay.