Its hard to say. Some years back I had a large long leaf pine get hit
with lightning, and it knocked the top off, and blew a strip of the
bark off from the top of the tree all the way to the base where it
blew a hle in the dirt big enough to put a volkswagon in. I had given
up all hope for that tree, but its still kicking and doing fine 15
years later. I have had other trees not fair so good.
If it does not present a hazzard, I would trim any damaged limbs to a
proper pruning cut and wait and see what happens.
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