My Z is blessed, sacred, holy, etc. etc.

... and here's why...

well... actually... pictures speak louder than words, so I'll let you interpret what happened.

the outcome...

Holy friggin crap.

Was it a weather or age related collapse, or was somebody playing Paul Bunyan?

Truly God is a Z fan.

Holy crap dude! I don't see any permanent damage from the tree at all. I believe all of your luck has been used up for the year. Congrats on the narrow escape from disaster.

Holy crap dude! I don't see any permanent damage from the tree at all.

A few scratches on the roof, but that's pretty much it, yep. It doesn't even look like the radio antenna got bent up...

However, if I would have parked about 3 feet further back (like I often do) the bulk of the tree would have been on the car... and boom, no more Z.

Holy friggin crap.

Was it a weather or age related collapse, or was somebody playing Paul Bunyan?

Tell me about it.

... The prevailing theory is that the loud "CRACK!" everyone in the neighborhood heard this morning was the tree being struck by lightning, then after an afternoon of downpouring it finally gave way and collapsed as you saw in the photos.

The tree has been being eaten away by Carpenter ants for years though...

Truly God is a Z fan.

No question about it.

I believe all of your luck has been used up for the year.

No way man! I'm hittin' the Blackjack tables now!

I had a tree that's been hit by lightning 5 times in the 13 years I lived in that house. You'd always know because it would blow off a new section of bark and take out half the neighbor's electrial system.

That tree had a massive ant problem as long as I can remember...it's pretty much done for now. It wasn't very unusual to come out and find a big honkin branch on a car in the drive. I've seen some of the 100+ year old trees at our farm come down in ice storms, but this is a new one.

Even better than the Z, glad it didn't hit the house.

Just goes to show you Mother Nature Drives A Z!

Will

Did you totally freak out when you saw your beloved Z under all those leaves and branches -- before you found out she only had a few scratches?

Holy Shite! You are a lucky man sir! That coulda been a helluva lot nastier!

Did you totally freak out when you saw your beloved Z under all those leaves and branches -- before you found out she only had a few scratches?

Pretty much. :eek:

The falling of the tree itself was pretty quiet, so I knew that when I didn't hear any crunching or shattering that it wasn't going to be all bad. However, I didn't rule it out.

Honestly I was more worried when the city employee came with a chainsaw to hack away at the tree (and the huge branch that had my car trapped). As you can see though, all he left behind was some sawdust.

Holy Shite! You are a lucky man sir! That coulda been a helluva lot nastier!

Lucky is a good way of putting it... blessed is another... Either way if one ever needed more proof that there is a God and he is just... yeah....

Just goes to show you Mother Nature Drives A Z!

That she does. My dad's girlfriend's Oldsmobile was far less fortunate when a tree decided to come down on that thing.

My stomach lurched when I realized what I was looking at in your photos. I'm glad to hear your baby is unharmed!

Holy $^!#. When I saw this I thought you Z was trashed, that's a miracle man!