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gab13by13

(32,590 posts) Thu Apr 16, 2026, 12:36 AM Apr 16

My Electric line is laying in my front yard

Lightning brought down half of my huge pine tree and it brought down my electric line. Luckily it went away from my house, a 75 foot tree.
Borough crew came with a huge front end loader and pushed the tree off my street.
One man electric crew just showed up to hook me back up. The storm had wicked wind.

Going to have to get someone to cut the top of the pine tree down, Lightning gashed the tree.

Hopefully have power soon, feel blessed the tree fell the right way.

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My Electric line is laying in my front yard (Original Post) gab13by13 Apr 16 OP

Very glad the tree fell away from your house! chia Apr 16 #1

Thankful that you, and your house, are okay. niyad Apr 16 #2

Glad you are okay and there is no damage to the livetohike Apr 16 #3

Downed trees druidity33 Apr 16 #4

Happened To Us Once ProfessorGAC Apr 16 #5

chia

(2,828 posts)

1. Very glad the tree fell away from your house!

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Thu Apr 16, 2026, 04:17 AM

Apr 16

niyad

(133,561 posts)

2. Thankful that you, and your house, are okay.

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Thu Apr 16, 2026, 05:04 AM

Apr 16

livetohike

(24,365 posts)

3. Glad you are okay and there is no damage to the

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Thu Apr 16, 2026, 06:38 AM

Apr 16

house. Was it a microburst?

druidity33

(6,927 posts)

4. Downed trees

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Thu Apr 16, 2026, 07:46 AM

Apr 16

Keep the wood chips! That's a valuable garden resource! Pine is not ideal, but great for mulch under acid loving plants (ie. blueberry).

Glad no people or property were hurt. Maybe losing the tree will give more light for planting?

ProfessorGAC

(77,099 posts)

5. Happened To Us Once

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Thu Apr 16, 2026, 09:59 AM

Apr 16

Pretty scary.
A tornado that touched down 6 or 7 miles west of us, then again about 20 miles east bounced over our town but blasted us with 90mph winds as it passed over.
So much line damage, including to high tension lines affecting a couple hundred thousand people, that we were low priority.
Ran the generator for a full week.
Also, we had an ice storm and that pulled a line down into our neighbor's backyard. It was still live, arcing like mad on the wet ground. You could see the flashing looking over the roof lines from 3 blocks away. Even scarier.

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