fiction has to be more believable than real life.

If this had been in a movie the timing would have been derided as too pat.

We were finally cleaning up the final bits of the mess from the last tree that the power company had felled on our property - it had taken weeks, but we were JUST stacked the last peices and Eor was sweeping up the chips - when we realized that all the buzzing we'd been hearing was the people sent by the power company... cutting down another one.