it could be worse man. the town i live in, we had some bad storms in june and some branches took out some wires, causing a lot of power outages. so this month they had crews come in and cut these trees down that were close-ish to any power lines. now these are 100+ year old hardwoods in people's front yards... not public property but apparently the power company and/or the city get precidents over the taxpayers. the ones that weren't completely cut down were basically cut in half, and probably will die. i would be royally P.O.'d.