Is it me or do those roots look like they have been cut? Makes me wonder if there are some buried cables that caused the root system to fail.
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I would say that persons life might be one big flat tire!
The definition of "Near Miss"!
A friend of mine had a tree from a local church fall on his car as he drove past, he suffered quite a serious injury but survived (with brain trauma), and as I said to him later God just warned you!
That 1st video, to have missed the house — and put it through the open gate — was incredibly lucky. Lucky that it didn't twist, going down. Also, he just stood there — waaaaay too close — for the sake of his personal safety.
We have a new winner. A last second push of the tree trunk, an extremely lucky landing in between two guys, and then an inexplicable pinata-breaking moment where everyone rushes to...grab a piece of the tree?
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why, just why were they allowed to congregate within approx 3 times the height of that columnar tree? Absolute carelessness of life!.
What made it swing to the right halfway down? It was heading right for the crown of people. that little boy almost got hit.
Ralph
It appears to have caught the roof over the entrance doors to the building and that diverted the direction of fall - - - Luckily!