Storm Damage Assessment in Evansville, IN

After a line of storms comes through the Ohio Valley the calls sort into a small number of situations, and they do not all carry the same urgency. A tree resting on a roof is holding load, and how it comes off decides whether the damage stays where it is or gets worse. A limb hung up in the canopy above a driveway — a widowmaker — is the most dangerous thing on most properties because it looks stable and is not. A trunk across the drive is inconvenient but rarely urgent. A stem leaning into a service drop is not ours to touch until the utility has made it safe, and we will tell you that rather than working around an energized line.

We triage in that order: life safety, then anything still loaded or suspended, then access, then cleanup. On a tree that has landed on a structure the work is usually rigging rather than felling, because sections have to be taken off under control and lowered rather than dropped. That is slower and it is the reason storm work is priced by the situation rather than off a list. We will also tell you plainly when a job needs a crane, since on a large stem over a roof a crane is frequently both safer and cheaper than a day of technical rigging.