Every summer we get calls after an afternoon thunderstorm from homeowners who cannot understand why a healthy looking tree tipped over roots and all. The tree was not sick. The conditions were.
By mid-July, a mature Atlanta hardwood is carrying a full, heavy canopy. When a strong storm dumps two inches of rain in an hour, the soil turns to saturated mud and loses its grip on the root plate. Add a gust front and the whole tree can lever out of soft ground, even with a solid trunk.
The trees most at risk are the ones with shallow or compacted root zones, past construction damage, or a heavy lean toward the house. Those are exactly the conditions worth having an arborist look at before the next system rolls in, not after.
A quick assessment can flag a root plate that is already lifting or soil that is starting to heave on one side. Catching that early is far cheaper than a tree through the roof.
After the storms we have had lately, has any tree on your property started leaning or shifting more than it used to?
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