I had a crazy experience last night. A massive, slowly moving storm system rolled through which contained roughly 4 minutes of intense microburst (torrential rain and insane wind gusts continuously) which ended up causing a very large codominant pine to come crashing down on my apartment building. Thankfully, nobody was hurt, but at least two apartments in my block have water damage and structural damage. To make matters worse, we lost power (unrelated to the falling tree) for what felt like an eternity. I was up all night sweating in my bed until eventually the power kicked on again later this morning. A second storm system with tremendous thunder came rolling through, dumping even more insane amounts of rain, but the power remained in tact, thank goodness.
Here's 60 sec of me filming the microburst, unable to leave my door frame due to intensity, right as as the power went out.
Here'60 sec of me filming the intense lightning and thunder.
Here's 60 sec of me touring the fallen tree/damage last night.
The tree was probably 80 feet tall and I had just climbed it about two days ago. It had a very hard lean which, combined with the extremely dry soil and high wind gusts, meant it was this tree's time to go. What's worse is that, in the process of falling, it took out a thick, sturdy limb on the deciduous tree next to it...which also happens to be the limb that I use to test all of my friction hitches. Ugh. Not the end of the world, but ultra inconvenient.
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