First, the safety part — it matters here
If any power line is down, sagging, or touching the tree, stop. Stay well back, keep everyone else back, and call Athens Utilities or your electric co-op — or 911 — before any tree work happens. Storm-bent limbs under tension and energized lines are how cleanup turns into tragedy, and no branch is worth it.
Second: a tree resting on a structure is not resting the way it looks. Roof framing, gutters, and the tree itself are all loaded like springs. Don't send anyone up with a chainsaw from the shed. Storm work is rope-and-rigging work, done in a planned order, and it's exactly what the pros we connect you with do after every big blow.
This county knows storms
Nobody has to explain severe weather to Limestone County. The southern end of the county — Tanner, out through the flatland along the Huntsville-Decatur corridor — sits in the path history keeps choosing: the April 1974 outbreak and April 27, 2011 both tore through here, and an ordinary spring still brings squall lines, straight-line wind, and the occasional warning siren at 2 a.m. Most years the damage isn't a headline — it's one water oak on one garage, a pine across a fence on Nick Davis Road, limbs through a carport in Ardmore. That's the work this page is for.
How emergency response works
Call and describe what's down and what it's on. Anything on a roof, a vehicle, or blocking your only exit is priority. After a county-wide event, honest triage applies — occupied-structure jobs first — and you'll be told plainly where you stand, not strung along. If insurance will be involved, photograph everything before cleanup starts and keep the invoice; adjusters ask for both.