Freak Accidents
And a “possible” tornado in this photo, even though these trees are obviously so rotten it wouldn’t have taken extraordinary wind to knock them over.
Storm triggers freak accident at Manitoba campground; Quebec man killed
12-year-old Conn. girl killed in tragic freak accident by falling tree branch
Gabriela Hudak was a student at Hamden Middle School in Hamden, Conn. Teachers remember her as someone who ‘always had a smile on her face.’
I believe I already posted that a woman was seriously injured by a falling branch in Manhattan’s Central Park early last month, only one of several incidents that occurred in the past few years having nothing to do with extreme wind. Citizens often blame the Parks Department for negligence in pruning. And this is why I am so very very angry today. In this latest story, the assertion is once again made that the huge oak tree that fell AND KILLED A YOUNG STUDENT looked healthy. There is only one reason for this. The condition of trees – all trees, everywhere – is so degraded that specimens that would have been clearly designated hazardous just a few years ago are now regarded as normal. The symptoms of trees in decline – cracking, peeling bark, holes, broken branches, thin crowns and damaged foliage – are UBIQUITOUS.
If the scientists and foresters had any brains or decency, they would find this phenomena absolutely remarkable and look for the fundamental explanation – the one environmental factor that all trees share in common – the composition of the atmosphere. But instead they continue prevaricate and blather on about insects and disease and drought and temperature – variables that are insufficient to explain the utterly universal trend of premature mortality. They also, if they weren’t egomaniacal douchebags incapable of an original thought, might wonder why so many people are dying from falling trees when not so long ago that was so rare as to be virtually unheard of.
I admit, this particular “freak accident” which has left several people hospitalized in critical condition has me particularly upset because the victim who died was a student at UC Santa Cruz – where I went to college, and youngest daughter is now a Ph.D. candidate. In fact I am steaming with fury. Here’s the article (which also has a video I can’t embed) as forwarded by Wit’s End reader Michele:
Annais Rittenberg, 21, killed by falling tree in ‘freak accident’ at summer camp as children ate breakfastFour other adults were treated at hospitals after tree fell at Camp Towanga near Yosemite National Park. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. had recently inspected tree and found nothing wrong.
Annais Rittenberg is a student at the University of California in Santa Cruz.
Source: http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2013/07/freak-accidents.html
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