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They usually just stand there. There are too many to easily take down, and are mixed in with other trees. The whole east half of the continental US is one larg
by margalabargala 1y ago
They usually just stand there. There are too many to easily take down, and are mixed in with other trees.
The whole east half of the continental US is one large storm away from thousands of fallen dead trees.
- bevr1337 1y agoMight be off by a few orders of magnitude there. Even 10,000 trees would represent 0.006% of the trees in my state. (Hint: it's the smallest one.) There are estimates that 13-25% of tree growth in our state has died over the last decade. That's closer to 50 million.
- bombcar 1y agoEven a moderately strong storm (only two warning sirens) took down thousands if not tens of thousands of living trees near me. Weirdly, dead trees can survive better because without leaves they don’t catch as much wind.