Ouch! I sincerely hope and pray all are well in this event.Originally Posted by SimonMc
Ouch! I sincerely hope and pray all are well in this event.
Joe Nungesser
Forget the box, just think outside!
I believe no one was hurt, amazingly.
A little off topic, but related. One breezy afternoon while perched 30' up a white oak while deer hunting, I had a 50' tall pine tree blow over straight at me. I heard a loud crack and the tree came right over. It had been dead several years as a result of pine beetles. Fortunately the 50' pine was standing around 70' away. If the top third of the tree had not already broken off I would probably not be here to tell the tale. Very helpless feeling being tethered to a tree, 30' up with a safety harness, and no where to go.
Crikey!
What was that from, downburst?
"I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe... ?"
- Kate Chopin
10. Box jelly fish
9. Saltwater crocodile
8. Stone Fish
7. Tiapan
6. Blue Ring Octopus
5. Red Back Spiders
4. Tiger Snake
3. Funnel Web Spider
2. Great White Shark
And the newest, most deadly creature in Australia....
1. Godzilla on vacation!
“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
We had a tree go down in our area last night, the tree almost took out a woman in her car, she is in ICU. She is an Art student, her hands are broken along with some of the vertebrae in her neck. The tree was healthy, the wind storm was just too much with the soggy ground, new growth and high wind. I lost a 70 year old tree in my yard and my roof. The roof was sort of a good thing. I won't have so much debris to take to the landfill!
No guarantee which tree might come down if conditions are right. Look carefully, look what is on the ground, watch winter conditions, such as a sudden ice storm, look for branches and other warning signs as other members have suggested. Don't Hang in storms. Playing in forests or wild areas carries risk.
A widow maker is a dead branch that can cause injury or even death to a timber cutter whereas a snag is a dead or dangerous tree. A relatively small branch that falls from a great height can cause a great deal of harm.
You mean like this?
https://instagram.com/p/0Qlf2SsODp/
Formerly McBlaster
The Tent is a Lie
It could be staged. The root collar seems to be on the top end of the snag. The video is too short to tell what really happened.
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