Pine tree 1, Mandi 0. Help!

[mandolin]

So my neighbor pointed out that the pine tree out back in my yard was so weighted down with snow it was leaning on the power line.

Crap.

After about 45 minutes of beating the tree with a shovel, failing to hit it with a brick and trying and failing to climb it in the hopes of shaking the snow off the top part that's leaning on the power line, the top half of the tree is still covered in snow and still leaning on the power line. I can't throw anything high enough to actually shake the snow off, it's really sad.

BGE is only taking outage reports. We haven't lost power yet.

In the hope that you see this before the power gets knocked out - any suggestions for dealing with this? I really don't want my tree to take out power for the neighborhood, because there's no way I'm going to be able to get out of here to find someplace with power....

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[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

My other neighbor Mike (who wasn't home, he was over helping dig a sick friend out) might have one. But his wife - who pointed out the tree to me in the first place - hollered at me when she saw me trying to climb the thing and told me to stop that before I hurt myself. (The tree was in worse shape than me, since my climbing attempts resulted in broken branches.)

I'm going to wait and see tomorrow when more people will be out before the game trying to dig our dead-end street out. The plows tend to skip us over (for obvious reasons, since we live on a narrow dead-end street). At least the snow has stopped for now.