tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post4885005115000099790..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: A Domino EffectGail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-22893574209743922362013-06-05T19:20:05.801-04:002013-06-05T19:20:05.801-04:00Yikes well I'm glad it didn't land on you!...Yikes well I'm glad it didn't land on you! I remember seeing this study a while ago, that Des just posted:<br /><br />http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2013/06/image-of-day-landed-trophy-fish-in.html<br /><br />It's a great illustration of shifting baselines and of course when I was looking at the pictures of fish I was thinking that the same sort of thing has happened with trees. They didn't used to fall over and drop branches. I never worried about climbing on them when I was young, or having my children climb on them when they were growing up.Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-47567424024242755232013-06-05T19:13:56.505-04:002013-06-05T19:13:56.505-04:00I had a rather startling experience recently while...I had a rather startling experience recently while walking through a pathway in a forested park area. I heard an extremely loud crack and immediately looked around to see which tree was coming down. It turned out that it was just a very large branch that had sheared off under its own weight and came crashing down about 15 feet to the side of me. <br /><br />Needless to say it scared the shit out of me and from the glimpse I caught of it coming down it appeared to have been a fully leafed out branch, not old dead wood like one would expect of a falling branch. It seems that because the trees are rotting from the inside out, sometimes these branches are just shearing off under their own weight. <br /><br />I can go to any forested area and find large branches with leaves still green attached to them that have recently come down. <br /><br />On the day I had my close encounter there was no wind, absolutely calm. The branch just didn't have the structural integrity to support its own weight.<br /><br />Thanks for all you do Gail. I think this blog is an important log of whats been happening and a source of proof that what is happening is getting worse year by year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-36576945087610157392013-06-04T08:17:27.486-04:002013-06-04T08:17:27.486-04:00Thanks DaveW. I'll fix it!Thanks DaveW. I'll fix it!Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-77490571488641994362013-06-03T23:28:54.752-04:002013-06-03T23:28:54.752-04:00Hi Gail,
Marvelous, the material you find! - but ...Hi Gail,<br /><br />Marvelous, the material you find! - but you might want to fix the link to Zev's wordpress site - needs to be http://fiddleoak.wordpress.com/<br />to arrive directly<br /><br />DaveWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com