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Almost lost her to mother nature
The other day I was taking a delivery of freshly cooked pizzas to a house. I had parked across the street from said house. It was really windy as a major storm was blowing in. Well, I get out of my car, shut the door and all of a sudden, this hellish sound of pops and cracks exploded behind me as I cross the street. I turn around and see this fully grown tree falling over in the direction of my car. My jaw hit the pavement and the only words I could muster were "Please no... please no... please no!!!!!!" Well, both I and the car survived with nary a scratch. And that is about it.
Keith
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Missed it by that much!
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I need to post some pictures of the neighbors tree, but he moved his car before I got my cammera tree fell down arching over his car and just touching the Jeep across the street, but nothing major.
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It's amazing how often cars come close to getting smashed by falling trees. I've had enormous trees fall across my path within 30 seconds of me passing by them, and less than 15 seconds before I arrived to find my path blocked by them. It seems to happen so often, yet it never loses it's effect on you.
It's kind of a side note, and I don't want to steal your thunder, but I have a story told to me by my grade school math teacher: She came home one stormy and windy night to find her driveway blocked by a fallen tree so she parked her car by the road. In one hand she grabbed the small bag of groceries she'd just purchased, and in the other hand the head of lettuce. As she began walking up the driveway, over the noise of the wind she heard large crack and the splintering sound a tree makes as it's falling. Because it was dark and she couldn't tell where the tree was and which way it was falling, she dropped the bag of groceries (but held onto the head of lettuce) and started running. She had gone half a dozen paces and heard the tree crash somewhere behind her, scaring the wits out of her. When she arrived at the house, her husband wondered where the groceries were. She told him that she had dropped the bag, and must have dropped the head of lettuce sometime after. Her husband went back down the driveway to retrieve the groceries. When he returned, he came back with a bag in one hand, and a head of lettuce with a two-inch hole in it where a large branch of the fallen tree had skewered it out of her hand as she was running. The next morning they dug a few inches into the dirt around the lettuce skewer branch, cut it off with a chainsaw, and filled in the hole. It was driven into the ground so far, it couldn't be pulled out. Those trees. They seem so harmless, so benign. Don't be fooled though, they're killers. Never underestimate the animosity of an inanimate object. |
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