Rick Peters had a 30-foot pine tree in the backyard of his Lincoln home until Aug. 9, when wind gusts of 90 mph came through the Capital City and much of eastern Nebraska.
“It took this healthy tree and basically broke it off at the base of the trunk and it blew over on our neighbor’s garage, essentially destroying it,” Peters said. “We weren’t ever concerned about it breaking off at the trunk like this.”
Peters was born and raised in Nebraska and has lived in his current home for 15 years. He remembers strong-wind events, but said they used to occur much less frequently…