[Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

[Jay Weigel]

Consulting an attorney might be my reaction.


On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
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