We live on 3 acres, mostly wooded. Over the last 5 years most of our very large ash trees have died-victims of emerald ash borers. We have spent many, many thousands of dollars getting trees taken down. There are 4 more, far from our house and our neighbors that we have scheduled to remove- the issue is they are near the power lines- which makes removing them necessary but also somewhat complex because the power company needs to cut the power on the day they come down- we are on their list for this happen, but it is taking some time. A branch from one of those trees landed on the cable line and cut the cable to our neighbor's house yesterday afternoon. Because we live in the woods, our cable and power go out somewhat regularly- dead trees or not, it's just the way it goes. Well neighbor sent me rage emails all night long that we were causing her intense suffering because her cable was out and it was our fault for not taking those trees down (she knows we are working on it). Her livelihood depends on working internet and on and on...At that point the cable had been out for 3 hours. I get that it is frustrating, but I don't control which invasive species are coming to our state nor do I set the schedule for the utility companies. Argh