Almost wacked this one last night. Not big enough to cause much damage, but we had slow orders all night on account of the wind, for this reason. I've got two 'kills', both trees this size (ish), both at 40mph, and with about 2700 tons in tow.
Was the tree already down or falling? I guess it doesn't matter. What a shame. But what are the chances of hitting a tree as it is falling?
Our friend in Ala was driving home in a thunderstorm 2 years ago. Tree fell on her car, she was very lucky, a limb impaled her left chest, all the way to her shoulder blade. Took her months to get well.
A co worker was leaving the office a few years ago. Tree blew over when he was pulling out of the gate and smashed the extended portion of his truck cab down about half the distance to the seat bottom. The driver seat barely had the cab collapsed. He was lucky.
I've posted it before but this happened in my neck of the woods in 2019. Local father and son killed when tree crushes their SUV southeast of Athens Scary stuff.
Actually, when it's your time to go, it's your time to go....aint no avoiding it. If you "avoid it", it just wasn't your time.....
Most of us have outdoors firepits. Common sense is something that is long on demand, and short on supply. Florida mom of 5 dies after backyard firepit accident that also severely injured 11-year-old son: reports
That's sad. Local news yesterday reported a guy slid off the road on black ice, down a small embankment. He ended up on railroad tracks just as a train was approaching and that ended up killing him.
https://www.abc27.com/local-news/1-killed-after-vehicle-fell-on-train-tracks-in-perry-county/ Oh man, I didn't hear the full report until reading that^^^.
Several years ago, a couple moved to our little town and bought the little store there. Had it open a few months. They were out riding their Gold Wing one evening when a big doe ran in front of them. They wrecked, but survived the crash, the wife made it over to her husband in the road, as she was checking on him, a young girl, on the way to the prom, came around the corner and hit them both, it was about dusk...they [didn’t] survive that. Don't know what mental state the young lady is in.
A couple weeks ago in Lisbon, a dude who lived near the tracks, was out walking his dogs on or near the tracks. He thought he could save his dog from the moving train, dude lost his life doing so. Locally he is now a hero. I bet according to the guys who hit him, he's no hero. As soon as someone is on or about the tracks, the horn is hung on to. Since they hit the guy, the horn was probably the last thing he heard. Maybe he heard the guys yelling out the window at him if they were. It's not a rule, but trainmen don't typically 'dump the air' and make for an emergency stop for a pedestrian (until speeds are slowed significantly already), as they tend to move out of the way, and making an emergency stop is a great way to derail a train. When that train is carrying railcars full of hazmat (TIH/PIH, Chlorine gas, Methyl Ethyl Bad Stuff), the risk of killing many people becomes a reality. If the train is a passenger train, no engineer is dumping the air and risking hundreds of lives on board. Our dog pictured on this site a few times, is a family member, but there are limits. While I wouldn't want to be feeling like I just stepped back and let it happen, there are people who need me still. A Lisbon man died trying to save his two dogs from a train. Now, family and friends are fighting to rehab the one that survived.
A train can't stop on a dime. Trains may be going anywhere between 55 and 100 mph so it will take a mile or two. By the time the Engineer can see something on the tracks (especially something small like a dog), there is nothing they can do besides lay on the horn and hope whatever is there moves in time. Although the guy trained his dogs for being around trains, there was a flaw in his preventive action. A better bet would have been to train the pups to return to his side and heel when they heard a train whistle instead of stop and stay. I hope, that if nothing else, this story will help others understand the unintended consequences (of both the dogs' training and the guy trying to save his dogs) and thus help them avoid a similar outcome.