I SAW THAT ONE COMING



CRUSHED!

I thought won the lottery when I choose the house I'm living in.  It is as what a visiting friend said yesterday "your street must be the shortest in Toronto".  I was a little taken aback by the name of the street at first, and even though I "favoured" the house on the MLS listings 3 months before I actually started looking I let my agent took me to see some houses that I wouldnt live in if they offered for free before I overcame the hangup with the street name and came to look on the house.  There are houses on only one side of the road and the other is lined with trees and shrubs.  I get the same reaction from every visitor, every cab driver - this is so neat, it's like the country, how did you find this place?  I saw what most house hunters cannot see, because they are afraid of grunge work.  I saw a diamond in the rough.  I'm a realtor's dream client because I always reasearch my own areas/homes as I just do not want someone to "sell me on a something" because they think it is a good buy or because they are anxious to do a deal.
Living in an older neighbourhood with way old trees has risks.  Risks that a tree will tumble over and cause real damage.  There is no risk immediately near my home, but the elderly gentleman on the parallel street whose backyard and parking spot is adjacent to me has a huge tree that must be upwards of 60 years old.  I've been nervous about the tree from shortly after I moved in and started to observe it.  What's worse, the gentleman parks his car right under the tree. "God help him if this tree crashes when he's in the car", I often think to myself!  Hydro came and trimmed some branches about 2 years ago but left a huge limb above electric line and I kept wondering why they didnt at least cut that limb off.  If the tree toppled, then it wouldnt affect power on our street.

Well, last year during a particularly windy period a huge section of the tree broke off.  He was lucky there, the car wasnt in the spot and nothing was damaged.  After that was cleaned up, I called his attention to another section that I thought was in imminent danger of breaking free.  The neighbours got together and cut it down for him.  All seems well.

There's always the calm before the storm!  Today I was at work and my neice sent me this picture! 

Glad it happened when I was out because I would have been scared stiff from the impact of the crash.  Power was out for several hours, firetruck, police & hydro workers scrambled to secure the area.  The elder gentleman's car?  Crushed!  Thank God it happened when he was securely in him home.

Commonsense combined with the POWER OF INTUITION will save a lot of time and money.  Unfortunately, common sense is not so common these days, and intuition?  For some folks it's like "what the heck is that"?

My guess is first thing Saturday morning the big trucks will be out, cutting and shredding with all the noise.  Good thing I'll be out enjoying myself.  Hoping we will get a break from the rain though.

MissSam
Friday July 6 2013