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HI all - thanks for the many posts - I'm so impressed at how many people care. Only update I can give is that we have heard NOTHING from the cable company since filing the claim. I posted pics that show how close to the tree and some of the roots dug up - I'd say about 3 feet from trunk and about two feet down - and they cut all of one side. They cut all of the roots that stick up above ground (buttress roots?). The roots are still above ground from the point they cut them for another 10 feet or so. That's why I know it's probably critical - wouldn't be so bad if they had cut them at 10 -12 ' out - but no, right near the trunk. Funny - it's the only tree roots they cut and they ran that wire all the way from the street to the back deck (500 feet) and zipped around every tree but that one. I'm better now because I know that life goes on and there is nothing about this tree that I can do now but hope and pray and leave it in God's hands.
As far as the question about what kind of trees grow here? Everything - we leave in a tropical rain forest. Only problem we've had with trying to plant new trees is that we haven't had much luck - either in planting them or having them live after planting. Those that grow up on their own - no problem - they grow like weeds. But our soil, in most of our yard is hard packed white clay. It's impossible to dig up by hand. Around my chicken run I used u-shaped metal garden spikes and drove them into the ground to hold down the foot of chicken wire that I extended outward (no way in you know what that we could have dug up the ground to bury that wire) Worked great by the way - ground was so hard that many of them bent while I was hammering them in. We even dug a pond (using heavy duty machinery) in our backyard (to hold the discharge water from our 3 Florida pumps - tens of thousands of gallons a day being pumped out of the ground, through the a/c systems and into our pond now instead of down the creek bank like previous owners did) and the neighbor next door (engineer) was saying "it will never hold water". Well we had to put in an overflow drain line the next day because the pond was overflowing - still does to this day - 5 years later. Keep stocking it with catfish.
Note to Chrissieg - when the hurricane came we had a mixture of both - trees snapping off and trees falling over roots and all - mostly the later. The old growth pines that were several feet around just fell over roots and all and left a hundred little ponds that we have had to have filled and leveled. A few did snap off but most fell over. Not sure if that gives you any more insight into ground quality or just the force of a Hurricane 5 hitting dead on. Though we lost 100 trees, thousands survived as did my husband and myself (we stayed) and our home - so I count my blessings.
Thanks again to everyone for caring - I was so upset and it was such a comfort hearing from people right away. Say a little prayer for my tree.
As far as the question about what kind of trees grow here? Everything - we leave in a tropical rain forest. Only problem we've had with trying to plant new trees is that we haven't had much luck - either in planting them or having them live after planting. Those that grow up on their own - no problem - they grow like weeds. But our soil, in most of our yard is hard packed white clay. It's impossible to dig up by hand. Around my chicken run I used u-shaped metal garden spikes and drove them into the ground to hold down the foot of chicken wire that I extended outward (no way in you know what that we could have dug up the ground to bury that wire) Worked great by the way - ground was so hard that many of them bent while I was hammering them in. We even dug a pond (using heavy duty machinery) in our backyard (to hold the discharge water from our 3 Florida pumps - tens of thousands of gallons a day being pumped out of the ground, through the a/c systems and into our pond now instead of down the creek bank like previous owners did) and the neighbor next door (engineer) was saying "it will never hold water". Well we had to put in an overflow drain line the next day because the pond was overflowing - still does to this day - 5 years later. Keep stocking it with catfish.
Note to Chrissieg - when the hurricane came we had a mixture of both - trees snapping off and trees falling over roots and all - mostly the later. The old growth pines that were several feet around just fell over roots and all and left a hundred little ponds that we have had to have filled and leveled. A few did snap off but most fell over. Not sure if that gives you any more insight into ground quality or just the force of a Hurricane 5 hitting dead on. Though we lost 100 trees, thousands survived as did my husband and myself (we stayed) and our home - so I count my blessings.
Thanks again to everyone for caring - I was so upset and it was such a comfort hearing from people right away. Say a little prayer for my tree.
