Posted on 12/27/2019 6:58:47 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
Hiker, 28, is killed when 200-foot redwood falls on top of him on national park dirt trail
Subhradeep Dutta, 28, of Edina, Minnesota, was hiking at Muir National Woods Monument north of San Francisco with two other people Tuesday.
Five giant redwood trees suddenly fell while the trio were on a marked dirt trail about 4.30pm, including a 200-foot tree that struck Dutta. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A female hiker also was injured by falling debris and treated at a nearby hospital. A second man was not hurt The trees may have fallen due to wet ground that became soaked after a series of winter storms hit the area in recent weeks, say authorities
Subhradeep Dutta, who is from Edina, Minnesota, was pronounced dead at the scene after he was struck by the tree about 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday, confirmed the Marin County coroner's office and a park spokesman.
The trunk of the tree measured 4-feet in diameter.
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A similar thing even happens in the desert. After a good soak in rain you do not want to be out hiking where there are a lot of Cholla cactus above you and have the wind kick up. It will rain Cholla limbs on you. And they bounce around like superballs. Not lethal, but it can be very seriously incapacitating.
They soak up the water and the limbs get heavy enough for the wind to break them off in mass, this is how they propagate.
It isn't like he was placed there dead and 5 trees were cut down onto him.
About ten years ago a couple were driving down the road in their pick up truck here in NH. A 100 year old tree broke, split in half an landed perfectly on the cab of their pickup as they were driving by on the street 20’ in front of the tree. They were both killed instantly.
I still remember the incident because the article stated they had been married for 50 years. They also were locals that had probably driven by this tree hundreds of times before. Also, if they were not going exactly 35 mph(or what ever speed they were traveling) the tree would have just missed the front or back of their pick up.
So, yes when your number is up.
Chemo prolonged my husband’s life. We were both grateful for those extra years.
The primary reason is faith in the great healer. We’ve had two miraculous healings and dumped health insurance on 1/1/2014. When the Lord wants one of us, the other is ready to comply. :)
Life is a mist. Eternity is not.
Thank you, N00B. How did we survive all these years without your brilliant insight?
“Our good Lord wanted him home NOW.”
Reminds me of the time I was called to the scene of a lightning strike. A man, his wife, and their daughter had taken refuge from a thunderstorm under a tree. Uh-oh. When I got there the wife and daughter were down and in shock but they were going to be OK. Dad had taken a bolt of lightning directly in the right temple and it came out the still-smoking hole in his right foot making a still-smoking hole in the ground as well. I looked at him and immediately thought to myself “God really wanted you back, buddy,”
Trees are evil. We need to cut them down.
Son of a Gun - and Pelosi wasn’t on that trail? How unlucky for us!
“One falling tree would be like being struck by lightning. Five? I’m calling B.S”.
I’m calling your post B S. Read the story.
The lumber industry, coal mining, and commercial fishing are in the top 10 industries for most fatalities.
I live in a heavily forested area. I have cleared the land around my house of trees. Around here we are heavily loaded up with black locust which in my opinion is a trash tree. However, it is probably one of the most rot resistant woods there are, along with cedar.
Black locust often have dead limbs, and around here we call those limbs widow makers. And of course both black locust and cedar are profligate in there ability to reproduce. If you leave land fallow, with in a year or two it will be covered in black locust or cedar.
The only thing good I can say about Black Locust is that it makes great fence posts what will last a half century or more. It is hard as nails, and burns hot and clean. It makes just about the best firewood, even better thank Oak. I
Redwood tree roots are intertwined., so it is quite conceivable that a major fail with one tree could bring several others down with it.
No kidding. The Vegas odds on this are astronomical. Working in the woods in the lumber industry we called these instances "widowmakers". Most of the time it was a weak limb but here, a whole tree!
Could very well be that the one falling tree caused other trees to also fall after being struck from the initial falling tree and then the ensuing falling trees. A falling 200 foot redwood tree is going to cause collateral damage unless it has barren landscape surrounding it, and even then the barren landscape will show evidence of being harshly impacted.
“That’s a Shame,”
Seinfeld
Agreed, but that’s where we are as a society these days.
Years ago when I was say, about 7
while camping somewhere in Illinois
an enormous tree fell almost silently
right next to where we had pitched our tent.
The huge trunk was almost completely hollow
if the wind was blowing in a slightly different direction
we would have all been killed and
I don’t think anyone would have noticed.
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