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Old 07-18-2025, 05:58 AM
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Weight, age, disease, heavy rain saturated ground, and Spanish moss. Any old tree with rot internally can come down any time. Rare but happens. IMO Silver maples are even worse, Hugh limbs grow latterly can fall out of them on clear day with no wind. Odds are not going to happen unless severe conditions but it happens. I use to live on Omaha Ne. Happen there with silver maples. Glad I don’t have Hugh oaks in my yard with laterally running limbs weighed down with Spanish moss when rains.