Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Losing Another Ent

You never know what tomorrow will bring. I just returned from a long weekend in the Bahamas and I had planned to share with you some images I took while there of neat animals and cool reference. Unfortunately, the day before we returned a storm hit back home and took out one of our trees. The good thing is that the house is fine, but we returned to a house with no power and many tons of tree laying across the yard. Two days after the storm the power is thankfully back on, but the internet may be out until Monday. All of this is making it difficult to have posts up on the blog as planned. I will try my best to have something up here on the usual days until everything is back to normal. In the meantime, here are some images of tree that decided to take a nap...

One of the largest in the yard it stretches nearly the length of our property.

 For scale, here is Dear Wife standing next to the upended root mass.

 
They estimate that about 2 tons of dirt is part of the root mass.
Glad I am not going to have to deal with it... though it will cost us.

Roots were pulled horizontally through the earth when the tree fell leaving holes and trenches in the ground.

That is all for another exciting Wednesday on the blog, see you back here on Friday! Until then...

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Monday, September 5, 2016

Rock you like a Hurricane Hermine

If you missed it with all the other things going on in the world, a hurricane hit Florida at the end of last week. Tallahassee just missed a direct hit as the west side of Hurricane Hermine glanced us. Being on the east side of a storm like this is the best you can hope for. That said, 80% of the city lost power. One of Tallahassee's biggest assets is its biggest liabilities in storms, our trees. The trees have smashed cars, homes, and a great deal of the power grid. We, personally, dodged many bullets with Hurricane Hermine and many of our neighbors have not been so lucky. As I write this, we do not have power and will most likely not have it back for at least a week. These things happen and we make due. I will not be getting any art made during this time and my office is closed till Wednesday. It could be a LOT worse and I will not be doing any complaining. Even in Tallahassee's current state we are doing better than many places in the world. Not sure how active I will be online this week, especially with little to no access to the net. If things have not improved, I will at least have a break from it all this weekend with my appearance at Space Coast Comic Con.

*UPDATE* After 72 hours the amazing utility works of Tallahassee and surrounding areas that came in to help restored our power. Many are still without and many still have damages that will take some time to repair. We were very lucky.

Here are a few images from my neighborhood...

A few images of the Ent war in out neighborhood

That is all for another exciting Monday on the blog, see you back here on Wednesday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com