Joe KC1SRI on Nostr: I did not end up in anywhere near the personal danger you almost were in, but a ...

I did not end up in anywhere near the personal danger you almost were in, but a similar thing happened to me in the summer outside of Boulder CO ~25 years ago. Stuck my hand out to lean against a similar size tree and it didn't even offer any resistance: it just went. I was at the back of a large group of people and, very luckily, it fell away from them. Several of them turned around at the initial crack to see the tree falling with myself, arms windmilling, going with it. 😬