Folks over the last 7 years I have lived and traveled all over the USA. I have been to Yellowstone several times. I have been to Devils Tower and to Mt. Rushmore. I have skied in Colorado, New Mexico, and Massachusetts, but no where have I ever lived where we have random falling trees!
We go to several parks and ride our bikes along the trails and paths. You can see that people have used trees to make obstacles to ride over and they are fun. But to go riding on a regular basis and see that trees have fallen since the last time perhaps due to wind, poor soil condition, disease, or root structure is just amazing to me.
I know that some of this is natural and it will happen where ever you live and that it is a part of the natural process. I drive down Genito Road on my way home and it is very wooded. I see new fallen trees at least every 2-3 weeks in the wooded sides of the road. We road in Powhite Park several times in the last month and there were new fallen trees on some of the trails and others that were about to fall. Way is this?? If you drive down Charter Colony Parkway and look in the woods, you will see lots of fallen random trees that I have been told were from a hurricane Isabella that occurred several years ago. It looked like some one just at random took and pulled up the trees for no real reason.
We go to several parks and ride our bikes along the trails and paths. You can see that people have used trees to make obstacles to ride over and they are fun. But to go riding on a regular basis and see that trees have fallen since the last time perhaps due to wind, poor soil condition, disease, or root structure is just amazing to me.
I know that some of this is natural and it will happen where ever you live and that it is a part of the natural process. I drive down Genito Road on my way home and it is very wooded. I see new fallen trees at least every 2-3 weeks in the wooded sides of the road. We road in Powhite Park several times in the last month and there were new fallen trees on some of the trails and others that were about to fall. Way is this?? If you drive down Charter Colony Parkway and look in the woods, you will see lots of fallen random trees that I have been told were from a hurricane Isabella that occurred several years ago. It looked like some one just at random took and pulled up the trees for no real reason.
Why would one tree withstand the force and one next to it succumb to it? I mean the base of the tree about 6 feet apart. And further more, it seams like the residents do not mind that they just lay there and rot on the ground. Trees are responsible for more power outages than one would imagine. Take a good storm that comes thru a wooded area and the power lines are not cut back; there you go, a limb has just takes out a power line. Why in fact in Texas where my mother used to live, a tree fell on her car and crushed it and on a separate occasion, a big limb fell out of another tree and tore down the power lines to her house. This in turn caused the house to catch on fire and burn to the ground. That sucked!!
So in guess what in am trying to say is watch out for Random Falling Trees...
What is your opinion?
