Storm aftermath -- this is a rant

You can read about the storm on Runnemede Remembered.

This is about how stupid people can be and are.

God made trees.

Trees grow.

Hurricanes are storms that 99 and 44/100 percent of the time occur in states that have a coast line.

Indiana and Ohio had a hurricane on Sunday. Winds in excess of 80 mph were recorded in most of the area. No rain, just wind -- lots and lots of wind. You can see some of the storm damage to our neighborhood on Runnemede Remembered.

Over 1,000,000 people were without electricity. 24 hours later over 400,000 are still without electricity.

My daughter HAD a tree in her yard. It fell down during the storm and fell on electric lines that knocked out the power for a swatch about 4 blocks wide and a mile long (if I got the story correct).

Several neighbors think she and her husband should pay them either their insurance deductible or some compensation for their losses (mostly food in fridges and freezers). No property was damaged. After all they let the tree grow so big and they should have known that someday it would topple.

How stupid are people? Do they think ALL trees should be cut down because there was a freak storm and trees fell on wires and knocked out the electricity for a couple of days? Or that the property owners upon which those trees used to reside should be responsible for outages?

Obviously, her neighbors aren't tree huggers. Where are they when you need them?

It was freak storm. Get over it!

That's my rant for the day!!!!!

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