Hurricane winds don’t care if a tree is rotten or not.
Hurricane winds will take the top out of a live tree just as fast if not faster than a dead tree. The more leaves on the limb the more likely it is to come down from the wind.
Dead limbs have no leaves to act as a sail and catch the wind, the wind can go around them easier. That’s not to say dead limbs wont come down, they will, but a lot of times dead limbs that aren’t completely rotten will still be in the tree after a hurricane has pretty much stripped live limbs from the tree.
I never said dead or dying trees had anything to do with oil other than a pipeline oil leak will kill plants.
Anything else you read into it is something you just made up in your own little head.
Maybe you’re not aware of it, but flying a pipeline looking for dead vegetation, it’s called a brown spot, is one way to find a leak in an oil/gas pipeline.
You don’t know much about trees and the relationship to oil was just plain silly.