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Monday, 23 May 2011

If you ever wondered what a tall tree looks like lying on its side...



100 mile an hour winds in central Scotland today - power downs bridges closed, cars overturned on motorways, bits of roof flying around, and a 100 foot/30 metre tree uprooted on a main road.
I was driving along Ravelston Dykes in Edinburgh trying to avoid branches and other greenery the wind had blown on to the road when I passed a junction that was more than usually busy. The photos tell why. This is no Japanese tsunami or mid-West tornado, but to see a mature tree with a diameter of around a metre just flattened is enough to persuade me that Nature Rules, OK?
I spoke to the man who owns the house on the corner, who was understandably pleased that the tree fell away from and not into his garden
Hope to get to tomorrow with no reports of people being hurt.

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