[Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

[cady soukup]

What a horror!

Our power companies pro-actively take down trees here in Virginia as
well. We are at the far end of a long access power line (3/4 mile) put
up by our local electrical coop - we've been very fortunate to have
lost power only about 10 times for a total under 30 days in the past
25 years. The longest power outage was after the derecho storm in June
2012. As we have no medical emergencies, and now have (I think?) 2
houses on the access line, we are low on the priority list so we wait
our turn for power restoration.

We planted our dawn redwoods well away from the power lines. They are
beautiful trees! The one next to our pond is especially majestic. Ours
are 25 years old and about 70' tall.

Sympathetic to your and your father's plight of lost magnificent trees,

Cady

On 10/20/16, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Horror wouldn't begin to describe my reaction and response to such an
> action!!!!!
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
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> 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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