[TriLUG] OT: thermodynamics of A/C question

[Steve Litt]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 9:36:47 -0400, jonc at nc.rr.com said:
> 
> Planting trees next to your house (especially the Southern side)
> could help significantly lower your A/C cost... of course it wouldn't
> be great for your foundation.

Trees are wonderful, but aren't without their downsides. You mentioned
the foundation as one. Another is hurricanes. You haven't lived til you
see one of your trees crash down onto yours or your neighbor's house.
During hurricane Frances, one of our trees split in half, fell on our
neighbor's house, and caved in part of their roof. Another one of our
trees, a little tiny one, kept rubbing our roof for the 10 hours that
Frances was near, wearing a large hole in our roof and damaging the
underlying structure.

Pine trees are the worst. They're so tall and so skinny that when they
hit a roof, they cut right through it like a knife through cake.

Thanks

SteveT

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