Thread by @joel_c_miller

@apoorva_nyc This reminds me of the short story that I sometimes wonder about writing up... It would absolutely be panned for over-use of foreshadowing.

My wife, daughter and I live in Melbourne . I was talking to my Mom who lived in Texas. I had commented on it being windy...

@apoorva_nyc then I mentioned we were going hiking. My mother responded that I should be careful of falling trees because she knew of a person who had been killed by one.

Sure Mom... will do.

@apoorva_nyc On the drive to where we were going hiking, we noticed a fair number of fallen trees alongside the road.

@apoorva_nyc Then there was a landrover coming the other direction, with a big dent in front of it. Driver pulled over, looked a little shaken.

@apoorva_nyc We came to a tree across the road. A bunch of people got out and moved the tree. There was a piece of landrover under it.

@apoorva_nyc On we drove.

@apoorva_nyc Then we came to another tree that partially crossed the road, but we could drive around it.

@apoorva_nyc Next we went around a power line.

@apoorva_nyc Finally we got to where we were hiking. Luckily, not many trees around there.

@apoorva_nyc While getting ready to hike, we heard an enormous crash on the other side of the road where there were trees. Glad we weren't going to be hiking around them.

@apoorva_nyc We did our hike

All was good. We finished. The wind had died down.

@apoorva_nyc Then we decided to go look at the trees that we had heard fall. They were massive - 6 foot diameter beasts. 2 had fallen with their roots tangled and taken down 4 others with them.

@apoorva_nyc After spending a while watching them, we started to go back to the road. Gust of wind.

craaa-aaack

@apoorva_nyc Up we look - there's a tree falling, and it looks like it's heading right for us. We take off running.

@apoorva_nyc My wife was 8 months pregnant. We had a 4 year old daughter with us.

@apoorva_nyc We took shelter behind another tree. Turns out the falling tree wasn't heading for where we had been. It was heading directly for that tree.

It hit the tree we were hiding behind. Branches fell on all sides of us.

@apoorva_nyc You can see the remains of the tree that fell - it broke off about halfway up, and it's on the right of this image goo.gl/maps/cTaAg3qiM…. The tree we hid behind was the tall tree close to the middle.

@apoorva_nyc Once we felt safe, we walked back to the road. My wife noticed her glasses were gone. I went back to find them. Another tree broke, this one farther away. But we left.

@apoorva_nyc Never had so much adrenalyne in my life. The -1 month old was doing somersaults for hours.

@apoorva_nyc I went back a few days later for the glasses. No luck finding them. I nailed a note to the tree we hid behind. Someone found them and returned them.