Posted on 04/13/2009 8:41:39 PM PDT by JoeProBono
DECATUR, Georgia One falling tree saved John Kiefer from another. Kiefer was sitting on his sofa Monday morning while a brief but intense windstorm blew through the Atlanta, Georgia, area, including Decatur. He heard a tree crash in his backyard and got up to investigate. That tree knocked down a chain-link fence, and Kiefer was getting worried about several other large backyard trees that were swaying in the wind. "And as I'm watching those move and sway, this crashed down," he said. "This" was a 50-foot red oak in the front yard that fell onto his living room, splitting his house in half and coming to rest a few inches above where he had been sitting on the couch.
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I think this is going to be a poplar topic.
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