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Blame it on the rain?
Man, this is some crazy weather we have had over the past few weeks. For those of you not in the Boston area, Thursday was a fun day with rain, sleet, and a little hail. This weekend, a Nor’easter decided to visit, bringing large amounts of rain and violent winds.
This morning, we woke to find that the huge tree at the end of the street had been uprooted! 
This house is just three doors down. Luckily, it appears that no one is hurt and most of the house is structurally intact; the root structure must be supporting most of this massive weight.
I don’t know when this tree was planted. Like most of Arlington, many homes in our neighborhood were built in the late 1920s. Since this is New England, streets are all tree-lined (if not, I’m certain some archaic statute would be violated). Most of the trees don’t appear to predate the neighborhood construction. This whole area was stripped of lumber (feeding the building demand in Boston) and used as farmland.
This raises some questions about our recently departed tree. It appears to predate the housing in the area. Why did it survive the 1920s construction? If this neighborhood was indeed farmland, was this tree present? Maybe it provided shade for a local farmhouse. We are on top of one of the Arlington hills and have good views of the surrounding land. On a clear day, you can even see into Boston.
About an hour ago, two trucks from a commercial tree service drove up to the tree, stopped for a minute, then drove off. Scared, maybe? Trucks from the Department of Public Works have just started showing up. Backhoes, front loaders, chippers .. no need to watch Extreme Machines today!
Update: And now a crane! The Arlington DPW is pulling out all the stops!
No commentsBlame it on the rain?
Man, this is some crazy weather we have had over the past few weeks. For those of you not in the Boston area, Thursday was a fun day with rain, sleet, and a little hail. This weekend, a Nor’easter decided to visit, bringing large amounts of rain and violent winds.
This morning, we woke to find that the huge tree at the end of the street had been uprooted! This house is just three doors down. Luckily, it appears that no one is hurt and most of the house is structurally intact; the root structure must be supporting most of this massive weight.
I don’t know when this tree was planted. Like most of Arlington, many homes in our neighborhood were built in the late 1920s. Since this is New England, streets are all tree-lined (if not, I’m certain some archaic statute would be violated). Most of the trees don’t appear to predate the neighborhood construction. This whole area was stripped of lumber (feeding the building demand in Boston) and used as farmland.
This raises some questions about our recently departed tree. It appears to predate the housing in the area. Why did it survive the 1920s construction? If this neighborhood was indeed farmland, was this tree present? Maybe it provided shade for a local farmhouse. We are on top of one of the Arlington hills and have good views of the surrounding land. On a clear day, you can even see into Boston.
About an hour ago, two trucks from a commercial tree service drove up to the tree, stopped for a minute, then drove off. Scared, maybe? Trucks from the Department of Public Works have just started showing up. Backhoes, front loaders, chippers .. no need to watch Extreme Machines today!
Update: And now a crane! The Arlington DPW is pulling out all the stops!
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