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Linus Torvalds

The reason why it’s taking so long is mostly that we’re in a fairly sparsely populated area on the outskirts of town. So not only do we have a lot of these big trees around, PGE also always ends up prioritizing the areas with many more customers affected.

But it doesn’t help that this really is a pretty massive tree, and it has also fallen in a way that makes it hard to remove, with the middle unsupported.

One of our neighbors has a brother that is a logger, and he apparently thought you might want two trucks to get it out: one to support the tree while the other cuts it from above.

Me not being a logger just nodded wisely.

RE: https://social.kernel.org/objects/98d5c1fa-1f94-452d-868c-f49b6f250579

social.kernel.orgLinus Torvalds (@torvalds@social.kernel.org)Day four of no power and no Internet. This big tree is the reason. One among hundreds in the area, but this is the one that took out *our* power and Internet. PGE (Portland General Electric) claim...
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@torvalds Not a logger either, but I believe loggers call that kind of thing "widowmakers".

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@tokensane @torvalds A widowmaker is a tree that gets hung up in another while being felled. One that’s already on the ground is a log.

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