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Published: 2018-04-24 19:09:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 113; Favourites: 13; Downloads: 0
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April 19, 2018 Albuquerque New Mexico
Our beloved cottonwood was struck by a 95 mile per hour micro-burst of twisting winds. A single limb weighting more than 1k pounds fell into the back yard. In its last act of love, perfectly missing every structure it would have definitely destroyed had it landed on. We've been delighted to have this magnificent being adorn our yard and shelter our home from the piercing New Mexico 
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That is just crazy that it missed everything. Love your raised planters Carole.
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Many thanks Candace - in this drought plagued land boxes are best to conserve water - hopefully they will last as long as we do 
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not even the little bird fountain got hit....you are really fortunate you wern't sitting underneath that widow maker
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we tend to avoid sitting under it when winds exceed 50mph 
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I too have some older trees that really sway and swing when the winds come up
at 50 MPH......
You are very very welcome
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Oh my. Incredible that no one was hurt and not even property damaged. A sign form above or whatever. Sorry to hear that the rest needs to come down but it's the right thing to do.
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we're going to leave the stump - about 3' high - in place - cottonwoods are very fast growing trees and we should have decent sized "sprouts" in about three years
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I did not know that...that's so cool...it'll come back
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