I am up at our place at Tahoe/Donner this weekend. On Friday, while taking the dog for a walk in the woods right behind our place, I noticed that one of the big pine trees had a big piece torn out of it, with other lacerations below that down the trunk. There were also pieces of the tree strewn below and a large piece hanging in an adjacent tree. I couldn’t figure out what happened.
On Saturday I was speaking with our neighbor, Norm, who lives up here full-time. His place is even closer to the tree than ours (only about 50 feet or so). He told me that about a week ago there had been a huge thunder storm right over our houses, and that lightning was striking in bolts in the darkness. He was in his house and saw a huge bolt strike the tree of which I am speaking in this post. He said the whole thing really humbled him. I went out this morning and took some pictures. Double-click on the image to enlarge it.
This is a close-up of the tree. You can see a large chunk of it hanging in the two trees to the right of the victim.
A long shot. Norms place is out of the picture just to the right. Another neighbor’s place is in the right foreground.
The moral? Don’t ever take nature for granted.
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