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Dmoored4 t1_jd85uhs wrote

I had the dead half of a half-dead tree fall on and total my car in Newark. Could this be it or you think they just got it totally wrong?

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Daydreaming_Bitch OP t1_jd86err wrote

As far as I could tell it was a perfect live tree, I'm no expert though. The city called me back and said it was a city tree and they decided to remove it. When I questioned why they originally said someone reported it as dead the lady said "I'm just telling you what they told me."

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qrysdonnell t1_jd8oykr wrote

The tree was probably likely diseased. I'm in South Orange and about 2 years ago 3 trees on our sidewalk area (we're on a corner) were removed because of some sort of disease.

We do have plenty of oak trees in our yard that are huge and might be diseased that we'll have to someday remove.

From what I've seen based on local discussions in Facebook towns are generally only removing trees for good reason, but they're never properly communicating that reason.

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