Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Should it stay or should it go?, 3 by Muddy1

Muddy1 wrote:
Here are some photos of the white pine that dropped half of its split trunk onto my house. The silver maple (not the one I'm having removed - yet, anyway) broke the pine's fall, losing 3 large limbs in the process.
The pine trunk is at the bottom of photos 2 and 3, parallel to the gutters. The top of the pine hit the second story. Miraculously, all of the shrubs survived; the rhododendrons actually look better than ever; the major pruning did them some good.