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Female: Charlotte is known as a city of trees. And protecting these giants is a great way for you to do your part. The shade from these trees reduces our cooling cost. The leaves absorb carbon dioxide from the air and trees provide food and shelter for wild life.
And just one volt of lighting can severely damage or kill our trees. But you can protect your trees from lightning and when you do, you’re also protecting your home.
Male: When you protect your trees you’re protecting your self.
Female: The experts at Heartwood Tree Service actually have a way to keep lightning from hitting your trees, traveling through the roots, and wiping out all of your electronics.
Male: You’re actually attracting lightning to the tree. But it’s coming down that copper wire, goes down to a ground that puts it below the root system, and it literally grounds out. So, there is no damage done.
Female: So, at the end of the day it’s an average of $900.00 versus an average of several thousand dollars to take off the tree.
Male: Several thousand dollars and a lifetime of shade, it takes a lifetime to replace this tree.
Female: No tree is immune to lightning. In fact healthy trees hold a lot of water making them a virtual magnet for strike. If you think lightning has hit one your trees, call an arborist immediately to see if it’s structurally safe. And if the tree is struck by lightning, is that automatically mean it’s doomed.
Male: Absolutely not.
Female: But investing in a lightning protection system is the only sure way to protect your trees from getting struck. And protecting our trees is another way for us to tread lightly on our planet.
Male: The benefit of protecting the trees from lightning is the fact that your trees will outlive you and you can leave them as a legacy of your life here.
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