Bad weather on Thursday...?

[ComputerDude]

Oh, man, ComputerDude.....I'd get those pines cut. Katrina taught the lesson that pines close to the house is just NOT good at all.
At a price of something like a hundred bucks a tree, (I'm guessing) and there are about a dozen running the entire length of the left side of my property, it's going to be sometime before I can afford that.

[noway]

I was able to get outside and see the damage.. GREAT I have a limb through the roof of my house.. LUckily its on the eve of the house so its not leaking inside.. Its great being a homeowner.. Maybe the squirrels will get the roof fixed.. :cry:

[ComputerDude]

Well that sucks Noway. Sorry that happened. I'm beginning to consider ripping all the landscaping out and replacing it with nice safe concrete.

[58ford]

I had unplugged all the equipment at the shop last night before I left. This morning I noticed what appeared to be a cigarette burn on a sign on the work table. I couldn't think of anybody here who would be dumb enough to do something like that, then I noticed other smaller burns on the sign & table in a spray pattern coming from the 220v outlet for the AC (it was unplugged) & a piece of metal sticking out of the outlet. Oddly the breaker was on, I turned it off and disassembled the outlet box. It was fried, as was the wire all the way back to the fuse box.
I examined the outside of the building & couldn't find any signs of damage. I've examined the rest of the shop & all the other electrics seem to be working fine. All the equipment is fine.
Looks like I'll be makin' a trip to Home Depot, luckily it was only the AC outlet & can wail till spring.

[Honey]

Are you saying the fire came out of the plug in?

[58ford]

Are you saying the fire came out of the plug in?
Yep. I wasn't here, but molten metal & plastic definitely spewed out of the outlet.

[Hermione]

wile, that's scary!

CD, when you find somebody to cut trees for $100 each, please let me know. In 2006, it was $1000 a tree. Of course that was in a residential neighborhood, which is more expensive. However, pre-Katrina it was +$3000 to take 13 pines out of my mom's yard (money well spent as it turned out!)

[ComputerDude]

$1000.00 To Cut A Tree Down?????

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