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To: OpusatFR

Yikes...pines have shallow roots. At least my oaks are deep rooted. It takes some major twisting wind to pull them out. The one that fell was twisted, too, so I suspect we had a small tornado (common during bad weather here...usually small).


20 posted on 09/10/2005 2:45:04 PM PDT by GummyIII (If you have the ability, it's your responsibility." Marine Sgt. John Place, Silver Star recipient)
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To: GummyIII

I live in the Northern midwest. We had some good shear winds last sunday that tore out some good 200+ year old oaks ripped out by the roots. They don't like to call them tornadoes though. Shear winds seem to just come out of nowhere and just flatten everything in a 50 mile area and dissapear.


25 posted on 09/10/2005 2:53:15 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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