Shortly after we moved into this house in January, a man from the electric company came by and said that one of our trees needed to be taken down, because in the case of a big storm it might fall and take down some power lines.
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| During cyclone Yasi, January 2011 |
Well it seemed no later than he made that pronouncement, and painted a big "R" on the side of the tree on the the right (R meaning remove, we imagined), in came a BIG cyclone, the biggest our town had seen in a century.
If it had hit us as was projected, it would have been a category 5 (very, very bad), but it passed north of us, and was only (ONLY) a cat 3-4 when it got to our place. Our palm tree swayed and groaned and dropped palm fronds, but restrained itself from falling on the powerlines.
Other trees around town were not so lucky.
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| Image from 9MSN.com.au |
Finally, the tree man came today to take down our palm tree.
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| Bryn says "what can we do with all this stuff, we could make a fort!" |
In case you ever wondered what the inside of a palm tree looks like, its kinda pulpy. With a squishy center.
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