Not a criticism oldspark I just find it interesting that your house seems to be in the trees, and I’m assuming fields for corn or something with no trees. My area of the country is completely different, we have more woods and have an acre or two around the house it’s more open. So wind and snow and storms don’t put trees on the house as often
The house is not in the picture, i keep the trees back what i think necessary, been here for a little over 40 years and never had as much as a branch on the house.
It’s amazing to some of us how flat it is some places. It’s rare around here to have giant, flat fields.
And this area here is no where near as flat as most of Iowa, we are near the river valley so we have hills and woods. Just 4 miles north of me its flat as a pancake.
Here a 50 acre field is huge Basically state is borders lake on left a river on right a mt chain down middle if it’s flat it’s a flood plain
When we went out to Iowa for Thanksgiving a while ago, to visit my brother... I noticed that every house had trees around it too CBV. He told me most do that because the wind never lets up and the winter's are coooold... ... helps block that wind a little, as there are corn fields as far as the eye can see. I don't think he had many branches come down, but his big barn screwed itself into the ground one stormy night...
Yes which is nice, windy here a lot, too bad the wind turbine right across the road dod not show up in the picture, one of the trees is blocking it.
I understand where both of you are coming from. Grew up in WNY, lived on Iowa for 23 yrs then came back to WNY.
