Yeah we will be hit with those serious outer bands. Praying out huge ass tree in the front yard doesn’t fall on our house. It is tilting a little from last years storms. Hopefully if it falls it lands in our driveway (the way its leaning) and misses our house.
If its a fall risk wouldn't it have made sense to have it removed? Or is it super old and you didnt want to do that?
Could always remove some limbs and try to coax it to leaning back a particular way. The house we're moving to has a MASSIVE maple tree and we are going to need to have a branch that is the size of a large maple tree removed so it cant fall on our cars or power lines.
Yeah we had an estimate done probably 6 months ago, and it was pricey. About 4 or 5 months before hurricanes hit us last year we had the two big trees in front cut back & one decent sized one that was between our house & neighbors house (but in our yard) removed (which after the storms we are grateful for doing), it cost us $1,000. Now for one tree they wanted like $2500.
After the hurricane hits we had last year prices for everything went up major! We had to replace fencing, which we still haven’t had a chance to replace one side of fencing because we were able to get it to stay enough to keep pups in our yard and neighbors were selling and moved, so didn’t have to worry about dogs next door. Now we have new neighbors (no pups though), and that fence won’t hold up to any significant winds this time. So fencing, roofing, tree removal, repairs, etc... everything is still pricey here.
The tree that dropped big branches onto our yard & damaged some of our gutters on front of house was from the neighbors tree. Cost us over $400 to replace a few small pieces of gutter. Here the neighbors don’t have to pay for damage if their trees damage your property during a storm.
Thanks fren! Prayers for Louisiana folks! They are going to be hit really hard.🙏
We are in Bama, between Mobile & Pensacola (closer to Mobile though, just across the bridge), so not looking forward to this. My Meniere’s kicks in with pressure changes, along with still trying to get over this damn virus. Husband has the virus also. So we didn’t get much of any prep done for this storm.🤞
yep, everyone is just waiting to get the shit over with. But honestly I don't know how New Orleans isn't panicking right now as they are about to get hit on the dirty side of a cat 4. On Katrina's anniversary. Honestly I'm a bit concerned it's going to be Katrina 2.0. I don't believe all the pumps are operational.
Hurricanes can do a lot of damage even if they are a Cat 1. I live in the coastal plains of NC and got flooded out from Hurricane Flo back in 2018. So many homes here were under water when the Cape Fear and other rivers crested.
If you have a lot of rain in the season (ground already saturated as we did) and then have tons of rain bc the storm stalls over you... which it did here for 3 days. Then you will have less wind damage but more flood damage.
We had both in the area. But my roof held up so I got no insurance money from my insurance company... luckily we had FEMA flood insurance and we ended up tapping out of all of that. (It cost us more to repair than we got but luckily we were able to write off the loss for federal taxes for three years... so basically we came out even).
No matter what happens there will be damage from this storm.
I hope that it isn't as dangerous as they are saying it will be.
new orleans is a bowl which is what makes this so dangerous, if the levee fails, it's catastrophic. At the moment it's close to a 5, katrina landed as a 3 (for perspective). This is scary and no matter what south east louisiana is about to get devastated by this, regardless of what happens to new orleans. This is a nightmare.
Yeah we will be hit with those serious outer bands. Praying out huge ass tree in the front yard doesn’t fall on our house. It is tilting a little from last years storms. Hopefully if it falls it lands in our driveway (the way its leaning) and misses our house.
Long beach mississippi
Stay safe! 🙏
Tango yankee
If its a fall risk wouldn't it have made sense to have it removed? Or is it super old and you didnt want to do that?
Could always remove some limbs and try to coax it to leaning back a particular way. The house we're moving to has a MASSIVE maple tree and we are going to need to have a branch that is the size of a large maple tree removed so it cant fall on our cars or power lines.
Yeah we had an estimate done probably 6 months ago, and it was pricey. About 4 or 5 months before hurricanes hit us last year we had the two big trees in front cut back & one decent sized one that was between our house & neighbors house (but in our yard) removed (which after the storms we are grateful for doing), it cost us $1,000. Now for one tree they wanted like $2500.
After the hurricane hits we had last year prices for everything went up major! We had to replace fencing, which we still haven’t had a chance to replace one side of fencing because we were able to get it to stay enough to keep pups in our yard and neighbors were selling and moved, so didn’t have to worry about dogs next door. Now we have new neighbors (no pups though), and that fence won’t hold up to any significant winds this time. So fencing, roofing, tree removal, repairs, etc... everything is still pricey here.
The tree that dropped big branches onto our yard & damaged some of our gutters on front of house was from the neighbors tree. Cost us over $400 to replace a few small pieces of gutter. Here the neighbors don’t have to pay for damage if their trees damage your property during a storm.
Thanks fren! Prayers for Louisiana folks! They are going to be hit really hard.🙏
We are in Bama, between Mobile & Pensacola (closer to Mobile though, just across the bridge), so not looking forward to this. My Meniere’s kicks in with pressure changes, along with still trying to get over this damn virus. Husband has the virus also. So we didn’t get much of any prep done for this storm.🤞
I am in South Louisiana. Can’t evacuate because I am an essential worker, RN. God help us.
Prayers 🙏 stay safe!!
Want to watch a storm hit new orleans live? While the came work anyway https://www.earthcam.com/usa/louisiana/neworleans/bourbonstreet/?cam=catsmeow2
Looks like the calm before the storm right now.
yep, everyone is just waiting to get the shit over with. But honestly I don't know how New Orleans isn't panicking right now as they are about to get hit on the dirty side of a cat 4. On Katrina's anniversary. Honestly I'm a bit concerned it's going to be Katrina 2.0. I don't believe all the pumps are operational.
Hurricanes can do a lot of damage even if they are a Cat 1. I live in the coastal plains of NC and got flooded out from Hurricane Flo back in 2018. So many homes here were under water when the Cape Fear and other rivers crested.
If you have a lot of rain in the season (ground already saturated as we did) and then have tons of rain bc the storm stalls over you... which it did here for 3 days. Then you will have less wind damage but more flood damage.
We had both in the area. But my roof held up so I got no insurance money from my insurance company... luckily we had FEMA flood insurance and we ended up tapping out of all of that. (It cost us more to repair than we got but luckily we were able to write off the loss for federal taxes for three years... so basically we came out even).
No matter what happens there will be damage from this storm.
I hope that it isn't as dangerous as they are saying it will be.
new orleans is a bowl which is what makes this so dangerous, if the levee fails, it's catastrophic. At the moment it's close to a 5, katrina landed as a 3 (for perspective). This is scary and no matter what south east louisiana is about to get devastated by this, regardless of what happens to new orleans. This is a nightmare.