June 29, 2006
Today is a bad day in history anyway, but this was just icing on the cake. Icing made of strychnine, that is...
I was sitting on the deck not twenty minutes ago working away at the computer, when I heard a terrible cracking noise. It was coming from behind me, and my first thought was that the garage was collapsing on the motorcycle and all my tools. I should be happy that it wasn't that, but I turned around to see a fir tree that was in excess of 200 feet breaking into pieces and falling down. It was almost hypnotic. As it went the top 30 feet or so snapped back the other direction, I guess because of inertia. At first I wasn't concerned. It looked far enough away that I shouldn't be concerned.
My neighbor came over to make sure I had done something stupid, and we went looking for the tree. We found it...
Wishing I'd been under it...
I was sitting on the deck not twenty minutes ago working away at the computer, when I heard a terrible cracking noise. It was coming from behind me, and my first thought was that the garage was collapsing on the motorcycle and all my tools. I should be happy that it wasn't that, but I turned around to see a fir tree that was in excess of 200 feet breaking into pieces and falling down. It was almost hypnotic. As it went the top 30 feet or so snapped back the other direction, I guess because of inertia. At first I wasn't concerned. It looked far enough away that I shouldn't be concerned.
My neighbor came over to make sure I had done something stupid, and we went looking for the tree. We found it...
The tree had come down and essentially obliterated my barn. I don’t have the right shoes right now for climbing in to see if the only valuables I had in it were spared, but I think they were. The trunk you see, by the way, is about four feet in diameter…
Wishing I'd been under it...