several years back one of my neighbors decided to start at the source and set his tree on fire ( atleast thats what we say...
) he was burning his leaves and the wind kicked up and then it was showtime ! ( it was hard to make the call to the fire dept as we were laughing so hard .. ) the fire guys thought we were drunk till they saw it .. they just used the deck gun to put it out , needless he didn't have any more leaves to clean up or have to clean the gutter either , but he did have to replace some of his shingles and gutters ( the gutters from the ammount of water that fell on his roof ) ...