Business has been “tree-mendous“ for some companies in wake of last week's ice storm. Particularly, tree service companies.

“It's been busy, to say the least,” Dominic Pisani, a certified arborist at Adler Tree Service in West Deer Township, said Saturday.

“This is the worst storm I've ever been a part of in 18 years that I've been doing this.”

Adler's crews have been working nearly non-stop since Friday, answering calls from frantic homeowners with toppled timber on their homes and lawns.

“I've gotten more calls in two days than typically what I get in a month,” Pisani said.

He fielded 100 calls on Friday. There were 40 more calls the following day.

Pisani was on his way to Butler about 2 p.m. Saturday for yet another call for a tree onto a house. This one was at 300 W. Cunningham St., where a pear tree in the front yard snapped near the trunk and came down on the two-story home.

Ashley Messina, one of the downstairs tenants in the house that is divided into two apartments, was sleeping early Friday morning.

“We heard a bang,” she said. “We opened the door and right there was a tree.”

The upstairs tenants, she noted, has access to the front door.

“They can barely get out of the house,” Messina said.

Owner Jerry Day said there was apparently no structural damage to his home.

“The gutter may have been bent,” he said, “and some shingles may need to be replaced, but that might be it.”

Pisani eventually arrived Saturday for an inspection and an estimate to remove the tree: $3,000.

Day said he plans to talk to other tree service firms before making a decision about who gets the job.

The call to Butler, Pisani said, is not unlike so many others in the past two days.

“Butler (County) definitely got the worst of it,” he said, referring to the storm damage.

There's been so much work that Adler has had to prune the number of persons on a typical crew from three or four, to two or three.

Most of the trees coming down — many onto power lines — are those kinds that still have their leaves, Pisani said, like oaks, Bradford pears and gum trees.

“With the leaves,” he explained, “you have all that extra weight from the rain and ice.”