Posted on 05/28/2018 6:25:39 PM PDT by Enterprise
The accident happened on Highway 176 in Polk County while they were covering the impact of heavy rain in that area.
Video: Polk County authorities give update on accident Tryon Fire Chief Geoffrey Tennant said the engine of the SUV was running and the transmission was in drive when authorities arrived at the scene about 2:30 p.m.
He said the tree that fell on the SUV was about 3 feet in diameter and had stood back off the road.
Tennant said the ground was saturated and the tree's root system failed.
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Yimes
3 feet?
That will cut a house in half.
Upstate ping for the list.
The ground is soaked here in Georgia. Trees are falling. We will have my re than one death
Yikes
Sorry, not funny.
If a tree falls on journalists so nobody can report it, was it still caused by global warming?
A woman was killed in the same area as these two a couple of days ago. She died trying to avoid a mudslide. I agree. Going to get worse in the next day or two.
RIP.
This happens once in a while along the parkways around NYC. Those trees that line the roadways many of which were built in the 1930’s were never really cared for other than occasional trimmings. A couple of years ago someone on the Belt Parkway near JFK was killed by a falling tree, and the weather was nice at the time.
North Carolina
That is really sad.
(And not that it matters, but plenty of local anchors aren’t as leftist as you’d think.)
We’re they democrats?
That was a ‘it is YOUR time’ situation.
Was the tree hurt?
A mighty Montezuma cypress located in the town center of Santa María del Tule in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Its existence has been chronicled for more than 2,000 years by both the Aztecs and the Spanish that founded the city of Oaxaca, making El Árbol del Tule one of the oldest trees in the world. Its knotted trunk and branches have taken different forms and with a little imagination one can see faces of goblins and monsters and animals.
I would have loved to play on that tree when I was young.
Very cool.
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