That Time a Tree Fell in Mom's Back Yard

On Saturday afternoon, June 19, my 91 year old mother Carolyn Shores Wright  was sitting peacefully in the sunroom on the back of her house in Huntsville. Suddenly she heard a loud crash and soon realized a huge pecan tree in her back yard had fallen completely over. Luckily the tree fell more or less between the house and a garden shed; as shown below, only minor damage to the roof of the house occurred. 

On the following Wednesday Eager Beaver Tree Removal, which had been out the previous week removing another tree for mom and several for a neighbor, returned to do their thing. This time they brought a huge crane. 

More details below some of the photos. 

Here's a view from behind the root ball of the tree; mom's house is on the right. Visible is the screened porch and a chimney. That white siding is on the sunroom where mom was sitting. 

Two closer views of the tree against the house.

Another view of the tree in the yard. 

Here's the corner of the sunroom on the back of the house. Mom was sitting on a couch close to that window when the tree fell. 

This view was out the basement back door; you can see the top of the garden shed behind the treetop. 

This photo was taken on the morning of the removal. Those green leaves behind the roof are the downed pecan. 

Oh, boy, the crane has arrived! I wish my three-year old grandson Ezra had been there to watch this big machine in operation. 

Clearing the top part of the tree out took several hours. Then the crane work began!

Finally the roof damage was clearly visible. 

Several of these giant pieces were lifted over the house. The entire tree was reduced to sawdust by another giant piece of equipment the tree service brought along. 

And a third piece of equipment was used to reduce the stump to sawdust.

Here's all that was left of that tree when the job was finished. Amazingly, there was no other damage to the yard. 

Luckily there was no serious damage to the roof and the roofing company was able to repair it pretty easily and even matched the twenty year old tiles pretty closely.