That is my path — or so I might arrogantly call it — but it was much more the tree's path, as it fell to its doom:
December 17, 2021
Why I skip the morning run when it's very windy, as it was yesterday.
This morning, I saw the aftermath:
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I take our dog, Sadie the chiweenie (Chihuahua/dachshund mix) to a wooded park for her morning constitutional. One morning a hemlock fir had fallen across the main path. The trunk was about 40-ft long and it was about 18-in in diameter where it crossed the path. Sadie was able to go under the treefall while I had to scramble across it. Bellevue parks cleared the path the next day.
Did it make a sound?
I'm trying to remember the species of tree in Pennsylvania that we were told was called a Widowmaker because it dropped limbs so readily... Some maple, I think?
I love a windy day but seldom think about what wind can do to us un-carapaced creatures.
That's just good prudent thinking. I spend a lot of time in the woods and with winds like we've seen, no reason to win that sort of lottery.
“I’m not going to have a post mortum on something that hasn’t died”, said Nancy Pelosi, as she glanced downward at the lividity settling in her cankles.
A wind blows down the weak, and clears the way for the strong.
That which does not kill me, makes me stronger. Said no tree ever.
That's a reasonable assessment of risk. We see the same thing in our local hiking forest with a new tree or three down along the 4-miles every week. What's concerning is seeing what outwardly looks like a healthy tree that has fallen but the interior is rotted.
Years ago I took my two young sons on a canoe trip in the Boundary Waters. It was super windy the first couple of days. There isn't much soil up there and we saw many trees not break but simply topple over. All I could think of at night in the tent, as the wind howled through the trees, is one falling over on me and my son. Didn't sleep for two days.
The Biden Regime abandoned 14000 Americans and over 60000 Afghan support personnel.
Joe Biden and the media and the people using him like a puppet did this on purpose.
I know Ann doesn't want to talk about anything the NYT's doesn't want her to talk about.
But the Biden Regime and anyone that supports it is beyond the pale at this point.
People who run from this truth are cowards.
Definitely never walk or run in the woods in moderately high winds.
People have died from having large tree limbs fall on them. When we were campers, we looked at the trees in the campsite, for "widow-makers", limbs with no bark or leaves on them. Those were the ones that could fall during the next big wind. We had significant wind damage in Kansas two days ago, luckily none of the large limbs fell on my house or my car.
Biden's Earpiece goes Full Gadfly and claims black entrepreneurs dont have access to lawyers.
I guess thats the best we can hope for from puddin'-brains handlers.
I was definitely pondering falling branches as I walked the dog yesterday morning. (Some things have to be done)
A falling tree is what caused Texas governor Greg Abbott.s paralysis.
You gotta watch out for the overstory. Tell me, why are there so many runty trees in that park? Is it bad soil or were all of the trees blown out by a tornado a few decades ago?
According to recent stats 164 people killed in USA every year by falling trees. Its amusing that peeps will get in their steel chariots and drive 60 MPH without a seconds thought, but avoid the forest because of falling trees.
Of course, sometimes fears are irrational. People are afraid of heights no matter how safe they actually are on high bridge or overpass. The chance of me getting hit by a car while road biking are very low, yet I gave it up, because i became too obsessed by it.
I could go on and on about fallen trees and branches here in the remnants of the Great American Forest, from personal experience.
But instead, I recall a Confederate soldier's journal I processed at work. Among the usually mundane entries, there was one for Anderson of Company D, killed by a falling branch while they slept in the woods one night. Survive skirmishes and battles, and die by misadventure.
"You gotta watch out for the overstory. Tell me, why are there so many runty trees in that park? Is it bad soil or were all of the trees blown out by a tornado a few decades ago?"
What is your basis for judging the size of those trees? There's nothing to determine the scale. You've used the word "park," so maybe you're thinking of something like a city park where the saplings would all be weeded out. This is a woods, so there are lots of full size trees and also many more saplings always growing up under them.
@rcocean
There are people who routinely avoid the woods because of falling trees or only when it is windy? It is prudent to be out of the woods when wind is excessive unless you need to be there. The power company here just removed two 200y/o sugar maples in front of my home because they were deemed a hazard. I am heartbroken to see them gone although with the winds of late, I sleep better. I also avoided large expense by having them do it.
I don't necessarily agree about the chances of getting hit road biking are very low without seeing some sort of stats. I too quit road biking because I was no longer comfortable with the odds. I now regularly go in the woods and run a chain saw. LOL best
Maples are bad when they get old. Where I live, wind gets funneled up the street and the summer before last (2020) the wind kept pulling down main branch-trunks of maples. You know, right where the main trunk of a maple splits into two or three main trunks, right there, in four separate trees, one of those main branch-trunks pulled away and came down. The trunk starts to separate and water gets in the split and there's rot up high and under the bark where it's not evident and one day, no dead leaf warning, just a strong wind and BOOM - a third of the tree is lying on the ground. But I guess we were lucky at that because they fell separately last year, not all together in the big storms this summer and this December. And all on one side of the street though we have maples of the same kind and the same age on both sides of the street. (we wonders, yes, we wonders.)
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