Posted on 01/22/2024 10:04:15 PM PST by Olog-hai
Several trees in Northern Ireland made famous by the TV series Game Of Thrones have been damaged and felled by Storm Isha.
Work is currently being carried out to clear up the Dark Hedges site in County Antrim.
The tunnel of trees became famous when it was featured in the HBO fantasy series and now attracts significant numbers of tourists from around the world.
Storm Isha battered the country on Sunday night, with strong winds leaving thousands of properties without power and causing travel disruption. […]
Concerns have been raised about the state of several of the ancient beech trees for a number of years.
The trees in Bregagh Road, near Stranocum, are on privately owned land.
The UK’s Department for Infrastructure said last year that an independent specialist survey had found that 11 trees, out of a total of 86, were in poor condition and could pose a potential risk to the public. …
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I am active in Irish weather and people in parts of north, west and central counties (of Ireland, and all of N.I.) said it was one of the worst windstorms they have seen in recent years. A lot of trees were blown over. In Galway, the largest town in western Ireland, a large clock tower was ripped up and the clock landed on a sidewalk of a narrow street in a busy shopping area downtown, very luckily nobody was hit by it. As usual, the resident idiot population went out to take pictures of massive waves on very low seawalls and piers, again luckily nobody was swept away. The storm was not as severe in Cork, Waterford or Dublin. It was basically the same disturbance that hit the eastern U.S. last Friday, with 5 inches of snow around DC and Philadelphia, 2 inches or less in NYC. Once off the coast it exploded into quite a deep Atlantic storm and went rapidly across the ocean hitting Ireland Sunday afternoon and evening. Winds on North Sea oil platforms east of Scotland, and high elevations in Scotland, recorded winds of 80-90 mph. The storm is now dying out around the Franz Josef Land arctic islands north of Russia.
That should just about do it for trees in Ireland . Didn’t they cut down 6 million trees for the wind mill farm?
The tunnel of trees became famous when it was featured in Game of Thrones
Trees get old. Storms knock them down.
This is how nature works.
Thank you for these background details.
No, my Earth is static. My climate is static…
Thanks for your detailed description.
The UK's Department for Infrastructure said last year that an independent specialist survey had found that 11 trees, out of a total of 86, were in poor condition and could pose a potential risk to the public.
Maybe I'm missing something. If the trees are on private land, how could they pose a risk to the public? Are they Ents?
The folks there obviously need to be taxed more so that this never happens again!
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