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2006-08-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by 3dc 2006-08-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Someone has to say it" "Trees...why do they hate us?"

Posted by twobyfour 2006-08-17 00:24|| 2006-08-17 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Global warming

Posted by newc">newc 2006-08-17 01:52|| 2006-08-17 01:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Exploding Tree = Pinaceae SplodyDopa

Posted by RD 2006-08-17 02:20|| 2006-08-17 02:20|| Front Page Top

#4 I believe the tree is of the family Paleosus Pinus.

Posted by flyover 2006-08-17 02:23|| 2006-08-17 02:23|| Front Page Top

#5 It's because the tree was Oppressed and couldn't bear the Humiliation anymore, so it fought back with The Only Weapon Of The Weak. None of this would have happened if the USA had a more balanced middle-east foreign policy.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-08-17 03:24|| 2006-08-17 03:24|| Front Page Top

#6 I blame the bush.

Posted by SteveS 2006-08-17 04:14|| 2006-08-17 04:14|| Front Page Top

#7 LOL, SteveS.

Posted by flyover 2006-08-17 07:04|| 2006-08-17 07:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't you mean Shrub?

Posted by ed 2006-08-17 07:09|| 2006-08-17 07:09|| Front Page Top

#9 "Trees...why do they hate us?"

Those who walk about on 2 legs, chopping and burning ... The Valar willing, we Ents will revenge every tree whose life you have cut short!

Posted by Fangorn 2006-08-17 11:00|| 2006-08-17 11:00|| Front Page Top

#10 We need to look at root causes.

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-08-17 12:29|| 2006-08-17 12:29|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm surprised the explosion branched out that far.

Posted by BA 2006-08-17 14:14|| 2006-08-17 14:14|| Front Page Top

#12 BA, Xbalanke - you both need to leaf.

Posted by GORT 2006-08-17 15:17|| 2006-08-17 15:17|| Front Page Top

#13 Nut before you, GORT.

Posted by BA 2006-08-17 15:30|| 2006-08-17 15:30|| Front Page Top

#14 Was there a JOOOOOOOOOO hiding behind it?

Posted by tu3031 2006-08-17 15:35|| 2006-08-17 15:35|| Front Page Top

#15 Islamic Pine?
Did it scream, "Allah Akhbar!", before it exploded...

Posted by BigEd 2006-08-17 18:19|| 2006-08-17 18:19|| Front Page Top

#16 After being hit by lightning only a sap would expect the tree to just pitch over.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-17 19:36|| 2006-08-17 19:36|| Front Page Top

#17 You're not Punny.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-08-17 19:49|| 2006-08-17 19:49|| Front Page Top

#18 Seriously, that was a Steam Explosion, I happened to see the same thing once many years ago.

I was standing inside a friend's garage when lightning hit a huge old oak across the street, (100 feet or so away, kitty-corner) I happened to be looking exactly that way when it hit, it blew wood, dirt and bark all over the intersection, me and my friend too (Maybe 200 feet area) and eventualy killed the tree.

After it quit raining I went over to check it out.

It seems that how a tree grows a single root feeds a single branch, while it looked at first that the lightning had circled the trunk, really the tree was twisted as it grew.And the lightning followed the same path to ground.

Where the bark was blasted off was a straight line from the struck branch to the root. (Even though it 3/4 circled the tree trunk)
Bark missing and wood smoking all the way from branch tip to root, blew a good hunk of soil out of the ground (About two good shovel's worth) at the root's end as well.

The tree died, but it was a long time before it was completely dead, the exposed path was dead instantly, but the rest of the tree succumbed to rot starting from the blasted and dead strip.

The city finaly cut it down, (City Property) half rotted and half alive, but dangerous, dropping huge branches in the street from time to time.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-08-17 20:17|| 2006-08-17 20:17|| Front Page Top

#19 And I thought I'd seen some spectacular damage from lightning strikes....

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