Tree-MERGENCY 100 ft. Elm DEVASTATES Home.

In this intense video, we respond to an emergency call where a giant Elm tree had fallen onto the roof of a home in the Madison Park neighborhood of Seattle after a huge wind storm. Unless you live under a rock or outside the Seattle area, you're probably painfully informed anytime a storm is headed this way. Meteorologists hammer home warning about wind, rain and snow constantly any time we are expecting a storm. After all, inclement weather is their Oscar moment; their time in the spotlight. In all seriousness though, it is not without reason.
Each year, the costs of storm related damage is nearly a billion dollars in the United States with the leading cause being roof and structural damage due to falling trees because of wind and rain. In fact, the damage from thunderstorms is more common than destruction caused by tornadoes. The total approximate cost of damages from weather and climate disasters in the U.S. from 1980 to present (as of August 2023) according to NOAA is $2.6 trillion. Of that, an estimated $29.4 billion dollars in property damage was not covered by insurance. This is why it is of the utmost importance to have your trees inspected by a certified arborist. Seattle Tree Care is the #1 trusted arborist in the Pacific Northwest and our ISA Certified Arborists are always happy to come out and take care of you and your trees.
As you will hear in this video, when a tree falls on your house, it doesn't just hurt your bank account, it takes an emotional toll and can leave a lifetime of trauma in its wake. When this tree fell, the owner's young son was eating breakfast directly under the spot this behemoth landed. Thankfully nobody was hurt. While you won't see the tree fall in this video you will experience what it takes to remove a tree from the roof of this two story house as Peter, Russell, Adam and Donte carefully operate to remove this dead tree from the sheltering protection of someone's home.
00:00 Storm brewing
01:15 The Aftermath
08:57 The Homeowner