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A storm-damaged tree is not the same job as a standing one.
Trees on the ground, limbs hung up where you cannot see them, debris across the property line. Storm work is the one job that jumps the schedule.
Why a hung-up limb is the dangerous part
The tree that came all the way down in the night is mostly a clean-up problem. The one that matters is the limb still up there, snapped but caught in the crown, or the trunk half-broken and resting on something that is holding it. Those are under load in directions that are not obvious from the lawn, and they release when a person is underneath them. That is the work that gets done first, before anything is tidied, and it is the reason cutting up a storm tree is a genuinely bad weekend project.
What happens after you call
The phone is answered around the clock, which in a bad week in Berks County means overnight. Anything under load or over a house comes first, then the ground debris, then the clean-up. Dennis Melton had a storm tree down across his own yard and his neighbor's, in the middle of a week when half the county was calling, and from his first call to a cleared property was under seven days. If your damage crosses a property line, say so on the phone, because it changes the order things get done in.
Dennis Melton: from the initial call to the completed work was less than one week.
