A tree nearly destroyed my HVAC unit

The craziest thing happened yesterday.

A tree of all things fell on my heating and cooling system! I’m really lucky that when the tree fell it didn’t hit my house.

This isn’t any small tree either, this was a huge oak tree. This oak tree I had known for quite a long time was on its way out. Oak trees are normally big, sturdy and strong. This one was no different; it was a huge tree. So how did a master tree fall? Well, I’ve lived in my house for several years and over the years I’ve noticed that it was getting weaker. It didn’t help when a few years back I got struck by lightning. It was never the same after that and while it continued to live I noticed that it looked like it was dying. Didn’t have hardly any green leaves on anymore and it hasn’t gradually started leaning more and more. I plan to have it cut down since it was obviously almost dead, I just never got around to it. The tree was really weakened and then all it took was a bad storm to come through and that was enough to do it in. Because that made it fall over and when I fell over it hit my heating and AC system. Miraculously it only grazed the heating and AC system when it fell. Most of the impact of the tree still hit the ground and missed the heating and cooling system entirely. I still had to have some repairs done to my heating and AC system but if that thing had just been angled over my HVAC unit a little bit more I would have had to replace my entire heating and AC unit. I’m really glad I missed it.

 

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