Recently I was told that a friend died by someone very close to the event. He told me he was cutting down a tree and the tree snapped back and hit him in the side of the head, killing him.
Turns out the tree fell against another tree, turning the other tree into a powerful spring, and the part closest to the stump was lifted off the ground. The tree was then parallel to the ground and was snapped back to him like a battering ram and hit him in the chest, utterly crushing it.
i.e. I don’t trust early explanations on a breaking news story.
Have you ever seen what a swamp looks like after it’s been drained? The snakes are all dead, the swamp critters driven out and scattered, mostly dead. The stink goes away.