So the tree could fall on to our driveway/street and hit pretty much nothing. OR, it could knock out the entire area's electricity, phone, and internet since the hubs are in my side yard.
If this was a waste of your time I apologize but I it interesting how the bark buckled as one unit and how you can totally crack a tree right down the middle (the trunk a little under a meter in diameter, the crack is an inch apart and extends into the stump). Crack got wider in the last storm....
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Crack is an inch wide for scale.
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Internetz, cable, phone, and electric all have little hubs in one direction of possible collapse.
Still a mystery as to how this happened since there are trees double in height within 20ft of this one and there isn't a dead branch on it.