Leaving Windcreek SP around 10:15 this morning a large oak tree decided it wanted to block our path. Pulling through the campground the DW and I watched a large oak tree just fall over about 500 feet in front of us blocking the road. If we has left 30 seconds earlier that would have been sitting on us. We had to back up over 1000' in order to go out another road. The tree was rotted at the base and just gave up, I guess. The park was quick to react and by the time we were leaving the dump station I could hear chain saws clearing the tree. Just an interesting end to a great week at the lake and something to talk a out for years to come.

A thousand foot backup! Wowser. That's campin' first class.

And if you left a minute earlier, you would have missed all the excitement. :)

Halmfamily wrote:Just an interesting end to a great week at the lake and something to talk a out for years to come.Wow! That was a whole lot more than just interesting. A really great memory to be able to tell.

I once had a tree fall on the RV next to us, I had picked that spot to set up but was told that the site was reserved, so we moved over one site. The tree fell on a brand new RV on it's first trip out.It would have flattened ours as it was a Pop up.We assisted getting the tree off the roof and covering the hole with a tarp.

IN another campground I was going to mention to the manager that a tree was way too close to the road.. But by the time I got parked, to the store to register, the tree had already been moved.. YOu see the reason it brushed up so strongly against my RV is it was in the process of falling over.... By the time I got to the store.. It had finished.

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Dennis12
Explorer
Aug 07, 2017
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turbojimmy
Explorer
Aug 07, 2017
Lwiddis wrote:
A thousand foot backup!

Yeah I'd have waited 'til they cut it up before I backed up 1,000 feet. I hate backing up.
Halmfamily
Explorer
Aug 07, 2017
turbojimmy wrote:
Lwiddis wrote:
A thousand foot backup!

Yeah I'd have waited 'til they cut it up before I backed up 1,000 feet. I hate backing up.

If I'd known they were going to remove the tree that quick I would have waited also.
wthibeaux
Explorer
Aug 07, 2017
Camper was parked in our driveway. One night 2 75ft tall pines just fell over. No wind. They just fell. Missed the garage and camper by inches.
turbojimmy
Explorer
Aug 07, 2017
Halmfamily wrote:
turbojimmy wrote:
Lwiddis wrote:
A thousand foot backup!

Yeah I'd have waited 'til they cut it up before I backed up 1,000 feet. I hate backing up.

If I'd known they were going to remove the tree that quick I would have waited also.

No I mean days, weeks, months whatever it takes. I hate backing up :)
CavemanCharlie
Explorer III
Aug 08, 2017
I was camping at a park near me on a perfectly windless night. When I got up in the morning I saw a branch laying near my pickup. I thought "Thank goodness that didn't hit my truck". Then I looked up to see the pickup windshield shattered (and I do mean shattered) and a great big dent in the fender.

What shocked me the most is that this branch, that was about 2 inches around, did that big of a dent to the fender. They had to replace the whole fender.

Modern vehicles are built out of Tinfoil and Tupperware.

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