Camper basically chopped in half by tree

Wow!

That was a narrow shave. They can celebrate a new birthday now every year.

It looks fixable.

Holy cow. Crazy the lady was just thinking about getting up and sitting at the table. Wow.

I just bought my son a new Porter Cable buffer. Think it will work?

Mike

Was at a campground in Colorado a number of years ago when high winds were forecast. One part of the campground had very large spruce trees and the campers in that area were told to move to another area. And fortunately so. Numerous trees were blown down where RVs had been an hour before. Only casualty was a brand new Ram dually parked near the restaurant. Tree crushed the entire cab level with the bed. Luckily the owners were in the restaurant at the time.

Several years ago we were at a CG in PA and set up at the edge of a tall forest. A family with several small girls pitched their tent in the spot next to us. Rain was forecast and they decided to pack up. The next morning we saw a huge branch had crashed down on their exact tent spot. It would have done serious damage. We couldn't believe how lucky they were...

And because of Mother Natures disregard for man and his plans we have insurance companies.

I wonder if the truck frame may be bent too.

Lucky campers.

From the ( my past) campowners perspective, case law and acts of God are to be considered. The act of God argument prevails when the guest chose the site, case law gets involved when it can be demonstrated that the property operator did not address a possible natural hazard.
The question facing operators is what is a possible hazard?
A root exposed by last weeks rainstorm, could be a tripping hazard, or could it be more, a weakening of the root system that may cause the tree to fall.
Case law supports the landowner.
Noone can call in an expert engineer or silviculturalist to determine if and when a tree may fall, or which way.

In the broad opinion of the law, as I ve seen it applied to our interest, It also applies to that same. interest for freedom and choice of lodging or location .

The guest chose the site, the weather was unknown, the risks accepted.
given these factors, the camp responsibity is moot,