I had a rotten tree leaning towards my house, my BIL partially cut it then hooked up a chain to it and yanked it down in the opposite direction. It knocked off a couple shrubs but better the shrubs than the house.
It depends on where you were located, with the banding it mixed and got windy and caused some damage if you were not in the banding it was a nothingburger. I was not in the banding so I'm not complaining.
I bought one after the halloween snow storm, went without power for 6 days and it was down in the 20;s every night. Melted snow near my woodstove to flush the toilet. I m prepared if we ever lose it again.
When I took a lesson the instructor told me pretty much the same thing, have a routine with every shot, I only ever took one lesson but went from having trouble breaking 50 on nine to sometimes breaking 40.
I see people paying for small items with their cards, even a cup of coffee. Last year when we went on our fishing trip one of the guys didn't have a nickel on him and we needed cash to tip the mate and the guy that filleted our fish. He ended up going to an ATM. they're pretty much everywhere these days.