“One person has already been killed in NC due to a fallen tree.”
And this is significant how?
The U.S. average for deaths from “wind thrown trees” is 1.45 per million people,
http://whentreesattack.blogspot.com/
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Car Crashes Kill 40,000 in U.S. Every Year
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146212,00.html#ixzz1WFPomd5M
I woke up with a tree in my bedroom a few years back.
When an old poplar tree dies, don’t wait to cut it down because they don’t stand for long once they die.
It’s significant because people are mocking the severity of a cat 1 storm, people need to take it seriously, people can and have died in a cat 1 storm that’s why I posted about the guy in NC. I don’t care about car crash statistics, I am talking about people making lite of a situation which can and already has turned deadly.