If a tree falls over in your driveway, would you hear it?

Apparently, the answer is yes if you are Patrick, no if you are me. Yesterday we had a little excitement at our house, compliments of the wicked winds that have been blowing around Morgantown over the past few days. Patrick said he heard a noise when he got out of the shower and looked out the window to see the tree lying in our driveway! He came running from the bathroom and said "You gotta see this!". I really didn't know what was going on, having not heard a thing (weird, how do you NOT hear a tree falling), and we all went running to the front door.

Morgan was fascinated by the sight and insisted that I hold her at the door so she could watch Patrick try to cut the tree out of the driveway. We finally ended up in her room where she could sit by herself and have a much better view of the action.

I am still quite amazed that the tree didn't hit anything during its fall. A little to the left it would have hit the house, a little to the right it would have fallen on the garage. If my car had been backed up just a little bit it would have fallen on my car, and my aunt was due to be at our house any minute, so her car was spared as well! All I can say is thank you God!

I have to call today about getting the tree removed. At least that solves our problem of how to put up a fence around the tree, but it sure did take a lot of our back yard shade away!