http://www.tommyangelo.com/blog/2008/07/16/redwood-down/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:33:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.tommyangelo.com/blog/2008/07/16/redwood-down/#comment-117 Liz Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:42:50 +0000 http://www.tommyangelo.com/blog/?p=30#comment-117 We discovered recently that a tree falling in the forest makes noise too; lots of noise, for about 2 hours in this case. We moved to a house in the forest last year. In the January storms this year, one of our trees got a split in the trunk and became more slanted than it had been, but was still fully alive. A few days ago, every 10-15 minutes I heard very loud cracking noises, like firecrackers. I eventually tracked the sound down to that tree, which was standing much less vertical than it had been. After a couple of hours of the cracking noises, it fell all the way over. It was a very tall bay tree, but fortunately fell accross a creek away from our house. The area smelled great afterwords (Bay!) This weekend we will have fun with a chainsaw :-) We discovered recently that a tree falling in the forest makes noise too; lots of noise, for about 2 hours in this case. We moved to a house in the forest last year. In the January storms this year, one of our trees got a split in the trunk and became more slanted than it had been, but was still fully alive. A few days ago, every 10-15 minutes I heard very loud cracking noises, like firecrackers. I eventually tracked the sound down to that tree, which was standing much less vertical than it had been. After a couple of hours of the cracking noises, it fell all the way over. It was a very tall bay tree, but fortunately fell accross a creek away from our house. The area smelled great afterwords (Bay!) This weekend we will have fun with a chainsaw :-)

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