[Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

[Marion Thompson]

Horror wouldn't begin to describe my reaction and response to such an 
action!!!!!

Marion, a pilgrim


On 10/19/2016 11:58 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>
> I emerged from a shower to hear the ominous racket of a chain saw
> in my front yard area.
>   
> To my horror, my 80' Dawn Redwood (Metaequoia glyptostroboides)
> had been severely trimmed by agents of the PPL local power company.
> I didn't have a chance to modify any of their destructive ways befoe
> it was a done deal.
>   
> True, it could have been worse because there are other trees they  could
> claim as a threat to the power lines  In any case it was a fait  accompli.
>   
> The ironic fact is that both significant power outages in this  development
> in the past ten years were secondary to the same power company
> agents (Asplundh) accidentally cutting the power lines.  None of  the
> "problem" trees they are cutting or removing were responsible for
> power outages.
>   
> I remember my father's extreme agitation at discovering that the
> local Northwestern Wisconsin Power Company had removed a dozen
> of his prize Eastern White Pines (Pinus strobus) as a threat to the
> power lines.  He had nurtured them from seed to about 30'.
>   
>   
>   
> David S.
>