Yep, we dodged a bullet with the DC derecho of 2012. We kept power (except for a few minutes at the height of the storm), and we had supplies on hand to get us through after the fact with water restrictions in place (bottled water for drinking and plastic/paper goods so we wouldn't rack up dishes). Because we had so much stuff purchased for the cruise, even not being able to do laundry wasn't the major setback that it could have been.
Around this time last year, more or less, we had a pine tree leaning at a pretty troubling angle towards our back porch and driveway. We also had an oak in the backyard that had died and was starting to show signs of rot. When we called out the tree people to remove those two, we pretty much had them remove every tree up to the property line, except for a few saplings and the healthy big oaks between our property and the neighbor's property. Seeing all the stories from people who had trees fall into their houses or on their cars, I am so grateful that we spent the $700 to remove the trees, lest we would have had to spend a hundred times that piecing a house back together.
We still back up onto a forested area, and that forested area still has very big trees. It is possible that someday one of those trees will fall, and there's a remote possibility that they will hit something more than just trees and dirt. For the meantime, though, I'm thrilled that we made it through this bit of interestingness with nothing more that stories to tell for years to come.
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