Rip, twang, kipper-bang

[HCR]

Reduction, surely.

[David Humphries]

Reduction, surely.

 

Maybe.

 

I've got a very long list of works that are of higher priority.

 

Sails been reduced now and its within and below the surrounding canopies.

 

Remaining portion appears not to be colonised by the Pluerotus (based on sounding)

 

 

 

 

 

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[HCR]

My apologies, I thought you were being tongue in cheek and my answer followed in that vein. Having looked at the pictures again, I can see that reduction could well be a viable option if it's not a desperately target rich environment.

 

Standing deadwood rocks.

[David Humphries]

Slightly more dramatic one from late this afternoon.

 

Oak from an old hedgerow line that went over in pretty strong winds.

 

Some of the roots appear white rotted from below the soil level.

 

Possible Inonotus dryadeus, as I've noted its fruiting presence in this line before, but not on this tree to the best of my knowledge or from deep in the files.

 

Its neighbour has Grifola which tends to fruit ever couple of years.

 

 

Glad that this wind event happened now and not back when they were still in leaf, otherwise I would imagine there may have been more than just this one going down.

 

 

 

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[RobArb]

Just a Conny split in two:biggrin:

 

 

 

Sent from my Galaxy S2

[ecodao]

hi all,

 

Check out the damage from last weekends mini Hurricane that we had here in Portugal.

We even lost the worlds oldest Cedar. :-(

 

Temporal Sintra 19 de Janeiro de 2013 | Facebook

 

Mau tempo derruba cedro mais antigo do mundo - TVI

 

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Steve

Portugal

[David Humphries]

Hello Steve,

 

What was the strength of the storm at its height?

Do you know how large an area it covered?

 

 

Shots look like some sort of tree Armageddon, and remind me of here in the south of the UK in '87

 

Thanks for sharing

 

 

 

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[ecodao]

Hello Steve,

 

What was the strength of the storm at its height?

Do you know how large an area it covered?

 

 

Shots look like some sort of tree Armageddon, and remind me of here in the south of the UK in '87

 

Thanks for sharing

 

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Hi David ,

 

I can Honestly say it was the craziest storm I have experienced even stronger than ones in the UK, and it was certainly not normal for here in Portugal

 

The wind Gust Speed was 167 - 180 Km, and the constant was 120km.

the other problem was we had our normal `monsoon` rains for 3 weeks before , so the ground was wet , a lot of trees just plate lifted .

most of the country got it except the Algarve, but where I am in Central Portugal was the worst hit. and along the coast.

 

The Botanical gardens in Coimbra and the National Walled Forest at Buccaco ,and the one at Sintra were devastated. really old trees just snapped ,such as the worlds oldest Cedar.

 

We had to do an emergency job in the middle of the storm on the Saturday afternoon, a 200+ year old Medronha (Strawberry Tree) up rooted onto a house. had to cut our way up the mountain to get to the house, nearly got wiped out several times by falling and sliding 210cm wide Eucalyptus and Acacia (Mimosa ) trees that were barrelling down the mountain.

 

not something I want to experience again

 

 

Steve

[mdvaden]

Tree blown down by small tornado, 2010, in Aumsville, Oregon, about 50 minutes south of Portland.

 

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[David Humphries]

Tree blown down by small tornado, 2010, in Aumsville, Oregon, about 50 minutes south of Portland.

 

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Powerful shot.

 

Without leaf also.

 

Do you recall if the ground was very waterlogged prior to the failure, Mario?