...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
Yes, that is how to look at it. the chance of a specific catastrophic random event occurring is indeed very small, but in a world full of random catastrophic events, the chance of one of them occurring is guaranteed!
I was once taking the Napali coast trail on Kauai for about the fourth or fifth time and it was POURING RAIN. and I heard this thunderous sound and then I looked up and there was about a 10,000 pound boulder coming right down the hill at me and I guessed and I jumped back about 3 feet and it missed me about one
Boy was THAT a close call
if I’d been wearing headphones who knows what it happened
Bottom line. In nature. KEEP YOUR EYES AJD EARS OPEN !