Heavy rain is possible in the coming days. That will mean water-logged limbs and saturated ground, two factors that can cause trees and large limbs to fail and crash to the ground.
) - In the early hours of Tuesday morning a massive 70 foot-tall live oak uprooted and toppled over on Government street. The tree took out two power poles and left residents without electricity. It also snarled traffic as motorists were forced on detours.Peter Toler is the Urban Forester for the City of Mobile. He said days of heavy rain adds stress to large trees.
“You want to look for dead, dying branches. Dead wood that is still attached to the tree or what they call over leveraged limbs because the factor with all the rain is water weight and if your tree is over leveraged you want to reduce the amount of gravity, physics that have an adverse effect on the tree,” Toler said.
Down below, the roots need to be healthy as well so they can hang on in saturated ground. Toler said large live oaks have structural roots that extend 15 feet around the tree. Any disturbance to those roots could cause the tree to fail. “A tree typically that uproots has underlying issue outside of ground saturation. Ground saturation typically is a secondary effect on it,” Toler told us.
Toler said a certified Arborist can assess the risk of trees in your yard. Or if it’s a tree is in the right-of-way you can call the city if you have concerns.Download the FOX10 Weather App. Get life-saving severe weather warnings and alerts for your location no matter where you are. Available free in the
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