Hiker, 28, is killed when 200-foot redwood falls on top of him on national park dirt trail

Daily Mail ^ | 26 December 2019 | Ralph R. Ortega

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Hiker, 28, is killed when 200-foot redwood falls on top of him on national park dirt trail

Subhradeep Dutta, 28, of Edina, Minnesota, was hiking at Muir National Woods Monument north of San Francisco with two other people Tuesday.

Five giant redwood trees suddenly fell while the trio were on a marked dirt trail about 4.30pm, including a 200-foot tree that struck Dutta. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A female hiker also was injured by falling debris and treated at a nearby hospital. A second man was not hurt The trees may have fallen due to wet ground that became soaked after a series of winter storms hit the area in recent weeks, say authorities

Subhradeep Dutta, who is from Edina, Minnesota, was pronounced dead at the scene after he was struck by the tree about 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday, confirmed the Marin County coroner's office and a park spokesman.

The trunk of the tree measured 4-feet in diameter.

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The comments on FR?

[cuban leaf]

‘tis but a flesh wound.

[cuban leaf]

This is why I’ll not go for chemo, etc. if I ever get cancer.

[PeteB570]

That is the worry in our neck of the woods when a tropical storm or hurricane moved in. Lots of rain prior to the arrival of the winds soaks the ground and isolated trees get pushed over when the winds show up.

[cloudmountain]

This is why I’ll not go for chemo, etc. if I ever get cancer.

Chemo prolonged my husband's life. We were both grateful for those extra years.

[SGCOS]

CU Buffs is the logo, University of Colorado Boulder

[heshtesh]

I’m surprised some guys death is a place for everyone to drop their one-liners, this thread doesn’t reflect well on Conservatives at all

You sound like a whiny liberal.

[bert]

It was a dirt trail as opposed to a paved Granny Trail

[HangnJudge]

Hiking in Muir National Woods Monument was beautiful when we were there.
Those trees have been there for a LONG time,
statistically weird that they fell at just that time together,
sounds like underground water from heavy rainfall
undercut local root systems

[MrEdd]

Yeah, sorry snowflake.
You can be terrified of death, become depressed, and tearfully hide from the inevitable. Or you can laugh at death and go bravely forward.

You have chosen your path, and I have chosen the direct opposite.

You have chosen to Express your outrage at the path I have chosen.

It should come as no surprise that I express mockery at the path you have chosen.

I will still continue to spend as much time as I have in the local woods. I’m not going to worry about falling trees or sink holes or any of the disasters that can happen. If I die someplace out in the woods its not a tragedy, this world is but for a time anyway. And I will go to God having lived and laughed.

[Grampa Dave]

Redwoods are really big Widow Makers.

[freedomlover]

Rachael Corrie could not be reached for comment . . .

[MayflowerMadam]

We can’t bring God down to our level and try to rationalize circumstances based on what’s in our minds.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.” Isaiah 55:8 King James Version (KJV)

[Grampa Dave]

Never trust a Palm tree.

[Dark Knight]

for what possible reason would a good deity create a person, giving him 28 years to form the basis of his entire future, then snuff the guy in a freakish occurrence that might happen once every century, thus rendering the life he did allow him to be devoid of any substantial meaning...?<<

And the answer has always been, when we can know all the deity knows, the question can be answered. Is free will the answer? Is there a butterfly in the equation? How is there evil in the world? If you trust God, that is an answer and it is not in knowledge but belief. It is also non epistemological and thus proofs are just linguist jibber jabber.

Happy Holidays!
DK

[PGR88]

imagine the odds of getting hit by a falling redwood? They could hike through the woods daily for 10,000 years and probably not repeat what happened.

[Red Badger]

Subhradeep Dutta, 28, of Edina, Minnesota.............

Finally can answer the question, “If a tree falls in the woods........................

[South Dakota]

I always watch out for trees when I hike.

They can fail anytime

[HangnJudge]

...They could hike through the woods daily for 10,000 years and probably not repeat what happened.

But if 1,000,000 people walk in the same forest over 100yrs, the statistics become more believable that one would die from a freak tree falling accident

[SamAdams76]

Sometimes I catch a falling leaf when walking through the woods during fall. That gets me to thinking that that leaf existed special for me. It got born in late March as a bud and developed into a full leaf by mid-May. All summer long that leaf hung from a branch on that tree waiting to turn color by late September and then finally to fall in October directly into my hand as I passed under its tree on a crisp, early autumn day.

That leaf existed just for me. And I do appreciate it.