The entire Northeast refuses to
by vermin05 (2020-08-10 08:29:49)

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That area of the country has the least compelling reason to do so because high winds are so rare since hurricanes are usually severely weakened, tornados are rare, and the mountains usually weaken normal thunderstorms. Combine that with Yankee stubbornness, and a belief that the way it’s been is good enough and you have your reasons.

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by beancounter  (2020-08-10 08:45:40)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

That's definitely a part of it.
by Wooderson  (2020-08-10 08:45:00)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

But see my post, I feel winter is far worse for this sort of thing, with wet winds coming off the water and icing up old trees and tipping them over.

During this storm, my buddy who has a 300' long driveway lost two massive trees that took out the lines to his house, on account of the root structure was trying to hold into what's essentially a glacier-smoothed rock outcropping.

The root ball that popped up was over 15' high when it was on its side.