Well we here in the Burlington area were lucky enough to have little damage from Irene but late yesterday I went to my log cabin camp in the mountains and found my camp to be fine but that my Maple Syrup Bush to be totally desimated by the high winds When one tree would fall the weight of it would take out the next and that one the next one so the trees are stacked like domino's. And these trees were all very large and part of my sap pipe line. So even if I can get this mess cleaned up and clear of the area I have huge breaks in the lines and thus will have to re-configure the entire network of lines which will be pretty much impossible to do before next spring. There was an old Tamarac Pine tree just off my property line that was by far the oldest tree on the Mtn. I believe at one time the entire mtn had been cleared of trees all but that old Pine tree I am guessing it was 250 to 300 years old it was left with just a few bare old limbs pointing to the sky and snapped off. Now all this destruction was on both the left side of my cabin and the right but for what ever reason none of the trees behind cabin got hit had they falling in same direction of all the others they would have been ontop of the cabin. They say the name Irene means gentle! my deceased moms name was Irene and she was certainly gentle and I have to wonder if there is a reason the cabin was spared? .