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Maybe they fell at different times from different storms?


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> Ah, the answer is that one was blown down, but its roots had been
> helping to balance the tree next to it, which was leaning into the
> wind. When the first tree fell, the second lost its anchorage on that
> side, and thus fell away in the opposite direction.
>
> --- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > > From: "spike" <spike66 at comcast.net>
> > >
> > > >I was on vacation.  Pondering trees.  {8-]  spike
> > >
> > > Poor Spike. He's dropped the hint a couple of times
> > > now, and no one has asked:
> > >
> > > So Spike do you think you shall ever see a thing
> > > so wondrous as a tree? ;-)
> > >
> > > Brett Paatsch
> >
> > Glad you should ask Brett.
> >
> > Yes I shall see something more wonderous than a tree: two
> > trees that have fallen in opposite directions.  Suppose
> > one is walking in an old growth forest and sees an uprooted
> > tree.  Surely the wind has taken it down.  But why two
> > in opposite directions?  I had an idea, which will need
> > to wait until this evening.
> >
> > spike
> >
> >
> >
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