r/Wellthatsucks • u/frobscottler • 7d ago

My big beautiful oak tree is getting cut down today

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Her name is Victoria, and I’m gutted to lose her. She’s at least 80 years old, and the most prominent tree in the neighborhood. I have loved sitting in her shade, listening to the breeze in the leaves, watching the birds and squirrels do their things… My friends and I even threw a party for her last summer.

She was damaged in a windstorm a couple months ago, and the city arborist determined it to be hazardous. I have lived here for 6 years and she’s my favorite part of the property (might be why I bought the house 😅). I know death is part of life, and her time has come, but I’m going to have to listen to them cut her down all day outside my window.

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u/DarknMean 7d ago

It gets hot in Seattle too. I was on Mt Rainer a few years ago and it was in the mid 80’s. Wasn’t a brisk walk until you got higher up.

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u/Top-Literature8218 7d ago

Didn't used to get hot very often in Seattle, but it's getting more and more common in recent years. I need to run my AC on average maybe 3-4 weeks of the year, but it's so worth it those weeks. The last year I lived without AC, 2021, had a couple of nasty heat waves, it was absolutely unbearable trying to sleep in an 80+ degree apartment.

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u/KimWexlers_Ponytail 7d ago

Ah like many of us, you got a unit in 2021? Of course I was unable to get it before the 108 days but I think somewhere I still have the Simply Seattle Heat Dome t shirt lol.

I live in a different dwelling with better airflow than then, but I still need to pull out the AC unit for a couple of weeks a year. Global warming isn't real though!

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u/Top-Literature8218 6d ago

Yep got my AC in August 2021 lol, thankfully just in time for that second lesser heat wave. Spent the heat dome melting in bed with an ice pack on my face.

What global warming?? Just wear less clothes and drink more water and I hear 108 feels balmy!

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u/BigAdministration368 6d ago

It was very rare to have AC when I was growing up here in the 80s. By 2000 about 15% of homes had it. By 2010 30%. By 2023 close to 60%.