Saturday, December 15, 2018

Things Falling Down

We've had a lot of rain over the last couple of days. This morning I looked out the window and something was missing. The echium has collapsed:
Whether it was the weight of all the water on it, or the soil softening because of the rain, I don't know. But it was probably close to the end of its flowering anyway. Bees were still visiting it though, later in the day once the rain stopped.

We went out this morning, and when we came home we met this just up the road:
The ute wasn't going to fit under that, even if it was safe to drive under.

It's another job for the tractor!
That's the ute at the far right, behind the leafy part of the branch.

Hard to see, but here a chain has been put around the branch:
 Then the tractor took off, and the branch came down:

and was dragged off the road:
Then I could drive the ute home.

I don't know when the branch came down. A woman drove up behind us, and told me that she had driven her car under the branch 3 hours earlier. She hadn't reported it to anyone, but thought "someone" would do something about it before she got back home. I wonder how many other people drove under it in those 3 hours?

7 comments:

Julierose said...

I guess that tractor really has paid off in many ways. I wonder about people who say "someone else will take care of it"....hmmm glad you got home safe...
hugs, Julierose

Graeme said...

Is there anything the mighty Kubota can not do?

Sue SA said...

"someone" might have been the council if she had bothered to report it...honestly drives me nuts in the day and age of mobile phones that people do not do the right thing! Good on your for being the someone this time!

Pink Rose said...

Hi Vireya my hubby does what your hubby did,as the council are usually too busy and take to long to get there. We often have trees blown down on our road,but we didnt with this storm. Glad no one was hurt and that you managed to get the car home.

Pamela said...

Thank you for being the someone who takes care of things!

Jeanette said...

That could have gone horribly wrong. Hard to believe someone drove under the branch. Great work Kubota team.

jacaranda said...

It could have been a case of “being in the wrong place at the wrong time “, thankfully no one was hurt.