Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Should it stay or should it go?, 0 by shortleaf

shortleaf wrote:
Here is a photo of a Silver Maple in my Grandmother's front yard. At the time it made a big mess in her front yard due to an ice-storm. It narrowly missed the house, it got the porch pretty good and it blocked the walkway for a while and destroyed a section of fence that had been there for 40 years.
A cousin was outside that nite and visibility was terrible during the storm and he nearly got kabobbed by a big, falling Silver Maple branch, those trees are weak in storms. -