Goodbye to All That Foliage

“Don’t fix that fence till you cut down that tree,” our new best friend, an arborist from the Davey Tree Expert Company, warned us. My husband and I were like so many Houstonians recalibrating from two storms just several weeks apart: the derecho of May 16 and Hurricane Beryl, which hit July 8, both of which brought black skies and drenching rain and upended Houston’s luxurious tree canopy like nothing we’d seen in our decades in the city. Now, like most of our neighbors, we were trying to assess the damage.The cost of the derecho is estimated at between $5 billion and $8 billion—four thousand windows were knocked out of downtown buildings alone. Beryl left 2.2 million homes, schools, and businesses without power, in some…

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