Misshapen Physics Problem.

George Carlin said that when we drive we try to get in our big iron things, sometimes with loved ones, and sometimes they are big plastic things (in the case of Saturn) and try and get from point A to point B without changing the shape of the big iron thing.

In ones house it's a big wood thing and we hope it's shape stays the same. Even the word maintenance has this idea baked right in. Maintain. Keep the same. Do not allow to change. Enter the windstorm that knocked out power to the area (not me) for days this last week.

Enter also some particular evergreen tree. (We are the evergreen state. No it doesn't keep me up at night.) Add the wind to the tree subtract the branch from the tree and add to it a fairly large vector toward the house. The roof in particular. The roof over the garage. Take the intersection of those two things in the 3-5 inch cross section and in concert with the conservation of energy. The kinetic energy of said branch applied to the structure of my shingles and the wood under the shingles and to the branch itself and what do you have?

A call to State Farm...