Tulsa's Big Blow

[sgrizzle]

I'd like to see some regulation where trees can't be near a dewlling and can't be taller than 20 feet or so, trees must be kept trimmed back when they grow. I see so many huge trees around Tulsa neighborhoods just waiting for some wind storm or ice storm to bring them down. Tulsa requires permits for everything but trees, the only tree regulation that I know of is dead trees should be cut down.

I apparently have been giving you far too much credit.

[sgrizzle]

I lost about double the limbs I did with the ice storm. My driveway can park four cars. Right now it is nothing but limbs in a pile about 4 feet high.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Large Burr Oak in backyard - no problem.  Ash tree - same.  Both perfect.

Neighbor's Silver Maple - big limb missed the car by inches...leaves didn't miss.

There are some trees that have no business in the landscape - pretty much any kind of maple, except for Japanese.  Bradford pears.  Arbor Vitae and Juniperus Virginiana (red cedar).

[sauerkraut]

I lost about double the limbs I did with the ice storm. My driveway can park four cars. Right now it is nothing but limbs in a pile about 4 feet high.

Yep if you would of trimed back those tree limbs before hand, or cut down the trees there would be no problem. The time to be proactive is before a storm hits.

[Townsend]

Yep if you would of trimed back those tree limbs before hand, or cut down the trees there would be no problem. The time to be proactive is before a storm hits.

Yeah Grizz, use your tree limb ESP to know which limbs to trim before they fall.

Sauer-donkey' solution is to contribute to planetary desertification.

Seems like a perfectly brain damaged way to go.

[Breadburner]

Sycamores suck too......!!!

[Townsend]

Sycamores suck too......!!!

Pretty trees with great shade but I'll have to agree.  Drops limbs like crazy, litters your yard with balls, leaves too large to rake and sheds bark twice a year.  Those should not be in a yard.

[patric]

"Forecasters also called the event a "derecho," for having at least a 250 mile path with severe damage and pockets of higher end wind damage. It was also called a "bow echo," for having a curved squall line shape. "

[Gaspar]

Pretty trees with great shade but I'll have to agree.  Drops limbs like crazy, litters your yard with balls, leaves too large to rake and sheds bark twice a year.  Those should not be in a yard.

They also have surface roots that destroy topsoil and literally eat driveways!

[carltonplace]

"Forecasters also called the event a "derecho," for having at least a 250 mile path with severe damage and pockets of higher end wind damage. It was also called a "bow echo," for having a curved squall line shape. "

Now they are just making smile up.

[custosnox]

Now they are just making smile up.

They seem to do that a lot with the weather around here.  My family still laughs about the "gustnado" that hit several years back.

[AquaMan]

Didn't they also create "sneet"?

[charky]

Now they are just making smile up.

Oh now its not just a made up term.  We get plenty of major straight-line wind damage in eastern OK from bow-echoes/squall lines. The Derecho is a different breed...it has a length component as well. It will have severe wind gusts (58mph) along its length as well as pockets of 75+ mph winds. They get them up in the Uppper Mississippi/Ohio valleys too.

And whoever mentioned how much Sycamores suck...oh yeah. I lived on Trenton off of Cherry street for years. Those trees got smashed by the ice storm and a Father's Day severe thunderstorm...place looked like a war zone.

[Gaspar]

Didn't they also create "sneet"?

and snew.

[charky]

and snew.

Don't forget snizzle.