# Tree debris came through my window. Whee! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 12, 2009, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479 "2009-02-12T03:42:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/1 "2009-02-12T03:42:59Z")
A rather large branch-type thing took exception to the existence of my living room window and has barged straight through it. There is glass on the floor. There is glass on the cat. Here is glass. There is glass. Everywhere is glass-glass. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/2 "2009-02-12T04:22:54Z")
Mercy, I hope you & kitty are alright! That’s downright freaky. We had a tornado come through North Jackson last year, in the area near my office. [Here](http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i84/NinetyWt/squish.jpg) is one of the photos from the paper. Good thing _that_ didn’t happen to ya! ---
**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/3 "2009-02-12T04:44:58Z")
Freakin trees. They act all naturey and huggable, but I knew they couldn’t be trusted. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/4 "2009-02-12T04:50:31Z")
> [@carlotta](#): > > Freakin trees. They act all naturey and huggable, but I knew they couldn’t be trusted. Ha! I learned THAT from _Poltergeist_! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/5 "2009-02-12T05:06:01Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Ha! I learned THAT from _Poltergeist_! Great. Now I don’t just have to fear the cardboard will come out of the window. I have to fear the neighbor’s tree will eat my head. Thanks, jayjay! ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/6 "2009-02-12T12:32:13Z")
We lost one last night also. Northern Ohio. Most wind I’ve experienced without being in a hurricane or tornado. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/7 "2009-02-12T13:07:09Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Ha! I learned THAT from _Poltergeist_! Better than learning it from _Evil Dead_. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/8 "2009-02-12T13:17:32Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Better than learning it from _Evil Dead_. Got wood? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/9 "2009-02-12T14:37:25Z")
I went to bed last night thinking my little house was going to get blown down, or at least I’d wake up to bits of my forgotten-about plastic lawn furniture strewn about the neighbor’s yard. When I got up, all the lawn furniture was still solemnly sitting where I’d left it (last fall). Amazing… Sorry to hear about the outside coming in, **jsgoddess** ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/10 "2009-02-12T14:52:50Z")
The trees are attacking! ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/11 "2009-02-12T14:56:21Z")
I’m sat at home instead of lecturing today, because a tree branch harpooned the rear window of my Mini last night/early this morning (high winds, 50-60 mph since last night). I’m waiting for the auto-glass guys to come and sort it out. The damage looks either horrible or awesome, depending on your point of view, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/12 "2009-02-12T14:59:24Z")
Northeastern Indiana reporting in. Trees down, power out, but fortunately, no limbs indoors this morning. ((((jsgoddess and kitty)))) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/13 "2009-02-12T15:11:19Z")
Your new limbering exercises is picking up glass and put it in the garbage. ---
**Author:** ![Karyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karyn)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/14 "2009-02-12T15:17:08Z")
I’m glad that you’re OK. I had a huge tree fall on a house that I was renting once and it completely smashed 2 rooms. Luckily no one was in that end of the house when it fell. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/15 "2009-02-12T15:19:35Z")
We hired the Three Stooges Tree Service to take down the top of a tree that was almost off anyway. It came crashing against my window, but didn’t break it. I was on a conference call at the time and let fly with an “OH SHIT!!!” that really had no place in the conversation. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/16 "2009-02-12T15:31:28Z")
I had a tree fall directly at me in perfectly calm weather. I was sitting in my apt, at my desk, and through the large window to the left I saw one of the pine trees, without any warning or fanfare, succumb to gravity precisely in my direction. Fortunately it was short enough and far enough away that it didn’t actually break through the window, but it did brush up against the mesh screen on the outside. Inspecting it, I found a couple of pine needles stuck in the screen, left there like a note from the tree. \*Dear SpatialRift, I hate you. Kthxdie.\* ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/17 "2009-02-12T15:35:21Z")
> [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](#): > > I had a tree fall directly at me in perfectly calm weather. I was sitting in my apt, at my desk, and through the large window to the left I saw one of the pine trees, without any warning or fanfare, succumb to gravity precisely in my direction. > > Fortunately it was short enough and far enough away that it didn’t actually break through the window, but it did brush up against the mesh screen on the outside. Inspecting it, I found a couple of pine needles stuck in the screen, left there like a note from the tree. > > \*Dear SpatialRift, > > I hate you. > > Kthxdie.\* See post #10 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/18 "2009-02-12T15:42:50Z")
When I was attending Penn State, we had a tragic death on campus after a huge ice storm. A very large branch from one of the historic American elm trees along the west side of Old Main Lawn fell from the weight of the ice, right on top of a student. In looking for a cite of the event (which I couldn’t find…it was at least three years pre-WWW), I discovered that University Park’s American elms are facing a new threat, elm yellows. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/19 "2009-02-12T15:44:11Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > When I was attending Penn State, we had a tragic death on campus after a huge ice storm. A very large branch from one of the historic American elm trees along the west side of Old Main Lawn fell from the weight of the ice, right on top of a student. You must have been there at the same time I was; I remember that story. 1994, I think it was. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479/20 "2009-02-12T15:50:26Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > You must have been there at the same time I was; I remember that story. 1994, I think it was. Early 90s, definitely. I thought it was more 1992 or 1993, but it may have been 94. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-debris-came-through-my-window-whee/485479.md?page=2)