[sionnsar]

Worse than that! I used to live in the Santa Cruz mountains -- full of redwood groves. Now redwoods have extensive root systems but they're shallow. Grow them on hillsides that are clay and sandstone and you have a recipe for disaster when it rains hard. One especially bad winter my little narrow back road through the mountains to work was blocked by a grove of about a dozen redwoods that had slid down the hill. They were all perfectly upright, but completely covered the road.

I wish I'd thought to take a picture...

[Darksheare]

Egads, they were trying to blockade you in!

[HKMk23]

And how do you know they weren’t just a group of Ents out for a nice stroll?

Obviously, they wouldn’t want to give themselves away, so you couldn’t expect them to just say, “Oh, pardon us,” and step off of the pavement.

Then, too, given the area, they might have been Liberal Ents standing in solidarity against your infernal gasoline powered machine.

Never can tell with Ents.

[NicknamedBob]

"One especially bad winter my little narrow back road through the mountains to work was blocked by a grove of about a dozen redwoods that had slid down the hill. They were all perfectly upright, but completely covered the road."

Sure, sure, Buddy. Like I haven't heard that one before. "Ossifer, the tree jumped out in front of me."

Just breathe into this mouthpiece, and this time, don't try to make music.