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I saw him yesterday. He pulled past my driveway, saw me raking pine needles, then he backed up. I thought he was going to pull into my driveway. Then he slowed down again and as he was passing my driveway, I said hello?? He just waved and drove off. ( replying to Wikami Cabin)
He did have facial hair, white guy. I would say 40 or 50 years old.
Very unusual.
A white pickup (extended cab) very slowly drove by our driveway, then stopped for a sec. Drove off, then backed up and looked up our driveway again. This was yesterday afternoon around 3 p.m. I could not see any sort of sign on the side of the truck…
Hopefully, it was someone trying to find a certain address.Hi gagacabin,
I believe so. Yes.
Also neighbor saw the truck again, later yesterday afternoon. Driving around Big Trees.
Does anyone know if there was a vegetation management group checking on the condition of properties yesterday?
November 10. I’m up here now. The smoke isn’t too bad. I hear there are off shore winds tomorrow, so air quality should improve. I live in Pleasant Hill, and the smoke is bad there.
ScottHey all,
About 40 mins ago a caucasian man (mid 20’s?), with short dark hair, drove down Wikami Way toward Sierra Pkwy. Truck was an all white, newer model. Believed to be a Dodge Ram
He slowed at my driveway and looked around my garage (open because we are working outside today). He pulled up a bit, looked around house, saw my kids, then backed up and looked up my neighbor’s driveway toward her place. It looked like he was about to drive up her driveway but caught sight of her. She asked “What do you want?” He just waved and slowly drove away looking back at my house (opposite sides of Wikami).
Didn’t feel right. Felt like he was casing our places. Please keep an eye peeled. I am putting a call in to the Sheriff just incase.
When we talked with the PG&E customer support office, they assured us that no trees would be cut down without explicit approval from owners, and that we could remove the ‘X’ from the trees if we register our refusal. We removed the ‘X’ using a simple wire brush and chisel — just took a few minutes.
I too have a fear that their tree removal crew will operate with different marching orders. After all, no one I’ve heard from has had PG&E contact them for approval, so we’re also putting notes on our at risk trees saying not to remove. I do agree that PG&E’s customer service department has been excellent.
Well I did a quick trip up to Arnold this past weekend and PG & E has marked yet one more tree in front of my cabin! Biggest tree on my lot, very healthy and no sign of dying. Tree is about 20 feet from lines!
I called again and they claim no tress will be removed without me taking to them first. My guess is I will come up and just find them cut down and I’ll get an apology after the fact.I happened to be at our cabin a number of weeks ago when the PG&E inspection crew came through. I spoke to the crew captain, and he said that all of our trees by the street were fine. But yesterday I arrived to find a big yellow “X” on a large healthy fir tree that provides welcome privacy. It does not appear to have any dead limbs or limbs that are near the utility lines.
So this morning I called the number posted below and left a voicemail. I got a return call within a half hour (they had to leave a voicemail), and when I called back I got a live person, who had a record of both calls and voicemails. (I’ll say this: they do have a good customer contact/records system.)
The PG&E rep said that on a second inspection, an arborist had decided to tag my tree. She said they can tag trees even if no branches are within 12′ of the lines (the normal rule of thumb) and even if the tree shows no signs of disease, if the arborist concludes that the tree is “likely to die in the future”. (Imagine if my doctor used that criterion!)
I told her that I was objecting to the removal of that tree, and she put that into their record. She said they will send an arborist out for another inspection, but I don’t know what recourse we have, if they decide again to remove the tree.
(I suppose I could buy some bark-brown paint at Ace…)
