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"Top of palm tree crashes into Point Loma yard"

LJG

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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Oh, yeah.

The Dark Tower in Downtown LA has a few CIDPs with a real problem. One of them has a crown that looks ready to fail as the one in Len's picture did. Twice I've shown management, and they've laughed it off.

No joke, though it's not as big as the one in the picture. People like to sit and smoke under it. Helluva way to die. Smoking or getting smushed by a thorny crown.

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grant b. Rising Star

grant b.

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Not quite as tragic or dangerous, but I snapped this pic of a toppled queen head last week after a windy day.

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Grant
Long Beach, CA

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WestCoastGal Grand Master

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Looked at the arial photo on Google Maps (searched for Bangor and Trumbull, Point Loma) and the tree that dropped it's crown was the one closest to the corner of the street. The fronds didn't look dried up in that photo but that tree did seem to have a lopsided canopy.

Zone 9b (formerly listed as Zone 9a); Sunset 14

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Kim Grand Master

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A couple of years ago, one of similar size went topsy-turvy through a living room roof! Fortunately no one was home at the time, but it sure made a mess of that house. This was further west near the ocean, but same general part of the world. It is spooky that these events occur but are so unpredictable.

Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
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Trópico Grand Master

Trópico

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The tree had probably decayed due to improper maintenance, Brown said. Workers will often trim the base of the crown too close, allowing fungus to infect it, he said.The tree had probably decayed due to improper maintenance, Brown said. Workers will often trim the base of the crown too close, allowing fungus to infect it, he said.

Over-pruning did it?

Frank

 

Zone 9b pine flatlands

humid/hot summers; dry/cool winters

with yearly freezes

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BeaumontTropics Proficient

BeaumontTropics

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Oh, yeah.

The Dark Tower in Downtown LA has a few CIDPs with a real problem. One of them has a crown that looks ready to fail as the one in Len's picture did. Twice I've shown management, and they've laughed it off.

No joke, though it's not as big as the one in the picture. People like to sit and smoke under it. Helluva way to die. Smoking or getting smushed by a thorny crown.

or moreover,

dying while smoking and getting smushed by a thorny crown!!

Living in the valley of the dirt people in the inland empire, "A mullet on every head and a methlab in every kitchen." If you can't afford to live in the tropics, then bring the tropics to you!

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