New Year's Day

My son and his mother are in the kitchen at 8939 Turriff Houston TX on New Year's Day. The kitchen window looked out past the utility room door and past a large oak tree. It had twin trunks each about 18-24" in diameter.

Beyond the utility room door, on the outside wall was successively, the electric meter and the window of the bathroom for the "master bedroom" which was a converted two car garage.

There was a walkway of concrete pavers that paralleled the outside wall.  Just beyond the electric meter, there was a gate to the backyard fence.  The fence, six (?) foot chain link I had installed my self, was perpendicular to the outside wall.

After the gate, the fence turned toward the house at a 45 degree angle to the gate.  The tree was inside the fence.  Just beyond the fence on that end of the back yard, was a fig tree, a shed and another fruit tree.

The fence went to the back property line where it turned again to follow the line to the far corner of the lot.  Later this part of the fence was torn down by the neighbors behind us (without my knowledge or permission) and replaced with a six foot wood fence.

It had been raining and the ground was soaked.

She is preparing black eye peas and telling our son that Southerners do this on New Year's Day for good luck in the new year.  Whereupon the tree comes out by its roots.  It falls away from the house.  It rips down the electric line, pulling the meter partly off the wall.  It damages the phone line.  It damages the fig tree, the shed and the other fruit tree.  It just misses taking out the neighborhood power, which lines ran along that side of the house.