tornado swept through a Grove Park neighborhoodExperts advise homeowners to take advantage of risk assessments to learn which trees on their property are likely to fall during a storm.“The most preventative thing you can do is have an arborist come out. Check it out. Just look at it,” Treeco Tree expert Geoffrey Smith said.“You want someone who knows what they are talking about,” Smith said.
Smith said during the assessment, an arborist can find small problems that may lead to greater issues. Smith also pointed out an example of a tree that was dying from the top down. It was a skinny tree suffering from response growth.