Hurricane Irene and me

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steve

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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? .
 
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Well, Steve, I am glad that you are fine...you will rebuild the sap line whenever you get to it..and the trees had pity on you, I wuold consider it good Karma from mother nature for creating such beautiful things with her products...hope the rebuild is swift..
 
We are a state of Mountains with a lot of small brooks and rivers all our towns are in the valleys and water flows down hill or as they say well you know . Storms of this nature never make it this far inland with that much moisture still attach to them but this one did it was the perfect storm for disaster as it pertained to Vermont.
 
Glad to hear you're fine, cabin's standing. We dodged a bullet with our new camper, 30' top of a 60' pine dropped within 2' of the back of the camper. We're headed down this weekend for clean up. I feel for you restringing those lines. We see so many here through the woods. Not an easy job. Have you heard from Bonnie Hawley??
 
Yes Spoke with bonnie this afternoon she is fine at her store in center of town she said all the destruction was to the outside edges of town and out. I guess she was one of the last ones to pass over a bridge leaving Killington before it blew out so she had a close call. The lines are bad but frankly the issue I have with how these huge trees are stacked its going to be rather dicey cutting them up safely and its going to take me weeks to do it.
 
Steve,

I'm so glad you stayed safe! Please, please please be very careful cutting up the fallen trees. I dear friend of mine was cutting trees to build his dream log cabin. A deadfall tree swung loose when the tree he was cutting came down. The deadfall tree smacked him in the nose. He died and not instantly, it was dreadful even though he was doing something he totally loved when it happened. Be ever aware please, we kinda like you! :) I'm glad Irene took your mother's advice and gentled her ways around your cabin.
 
Steve, glad you're ok... I'm sad that so many trees cane down... And I cut 40+ cord a year for myself.

Can you just put in a string of fence posts to patch the sap line?

Keep a vigilant eye, next storm, Katia should become a cane tomorrow... Looks to be on track for the Carolina's right now.
 
Thanks Mark wish it was as simple as adding some post but I am on a gravity system were how stright and steep and quantity of taps create the natural gravity to help pull the sap vs a person on vaccum. The large voids will cause a break down in that vaccum plus were I have taps and there are now no trees that has to be replaced. I will bascily have to start over once I can see thru the woods again so I can map the best route down to the main lines.
 
The strongest man, built the strongest cabin, in the woods, and Irene huffed and puffed, and couldn't blow Steve's cabin down, so, the spoiled rotten brat that she was, decided to take out your majestic tree line.....and for this, I apologize, I musta pissed her off.......I had a few of those lately!!
be strong.....
 
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