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Sunday, May 15, 2011

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Photos (click for full size view) of tornado damage in a nearby state forest. Damage from one of the tornados that spun out of the storms at the end of April. The road in the pics is an old Civilian Conservation Corp trail.

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12 comments:

pansypoo said...

wow.
we had a little forest fire near our cottage and i got some nice 35MM shots. and the next summer. need to find them. and the pics of the dead 2nd largest tree in the state that was set on fire by a vandal and brought down.

the farmer said...

ripped up about 300 acres. whats weird is that about a half mile away another one did the same thing - about 15 years ago.

little burned over forest fire site is a good place to look for morels. and assuming they burned the tree after it was dead?

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pjk said...

Looks like the forest scenery from Band of Brothers.

the farmer said...

pjk: yes, like the place had been shelled. Or like someone ran over it with a giant lawnmower and cut the trees off about 20' from the ground.

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pansypoo said...

ahh, global warming should nicely stir up the pot.

the farmer said...

just to note: in the second photo, along the far horizon at the right side in the photo you can see a lowpoint - a nick in the forest - which is where the tornado cam through. And photos 4 and 5 were taken up along that ridge. I drove down off the ridge onto the CCC trail to take the other photos including the second one in the sequence looking back up from where the tornado came from. just thought i'd mention that to give it a little better perspective.

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pansypoo said...

need a heliocopter shot.

the farmer said...

heliocopter shot.

i thought that too because i couldn't see where it began or ended from where i was.

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pjk said...

Ain't weather nice?

At least it doesn't feel the need to justify making anyone it affects life a little (or a lot) suckier. Like the oil barons.

Ah-Nuld fessed up about fathering zeh Love Child, so prices will go up!

The only bright spot in my day was this month's cover of Cosmo; didn't bother to read about how you can drive your man wild with things he would never tell you/ask for.

It's only half a glass, but an old and depraved guy such as myself won't call it half empty.

the farmer said...

this month's cover of Cosmo
Hada go look that one up.

didn't bother to read about how you can drive your man wild with things he would never tell you/ask for.
Blueberry ice cream cake! Towable backhoe with 3 year warranty! Wii Golf Resort Vacation Getaway Package! What am I missing!?

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the farmer said...

mobster movie update: looks like Al Pacino has signed on to the Gotti project. But I still think the DeMeo/Gaggi Gemini Lounge Crew story would make a better movie.

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Rachel said...

Had a tornado rip through part of our town last month and the similarities in the pics is unreal. Hope to never be that close again.