Скачать или смотреть 4. Cowdray Oak in Midhurst that nearly killed me 14.11.2013 - Fallin eik

30 tonne Cowdray Oak close to the Cowdray Ruins at Midhurst - that nearly killed me on the 14. 11. 2013 when it fell in middle of the day. This video is filmed the day after the catastrophe 15.11.2013.

The clotes on the ground show where I landed on my face when I ran from the tree, and the deep cracking sound was all around me. Im lukky to be alive.

A MIDHURST woman had a miraculous escape when a massive oak tree crashed to the ground close to the Cowdray Ruins at Midhurst. Hellen Linda Drake, of Heathfield Green, was out looking for acorns and fungi when the 30 tonne, 60-foot high oak thudded to the ground next to her. "If I had looked up when I heard the crack, I think I would be dead," she told the Observer, "but I just kept my head down and ran." Hellen had been searching the grass beneath two huge oak trees, in front of the Midhurst Sports Association Grounds, when her attention was caught by some mushrooms. "I bent down to photograph them when I heard this unbelievably loud noise." She immediately started running but stumbled and fell as the branches crashed around her. "At first everything went dark, then I realised it was still sunlight and I saw the huge oak had fallen behind me." Hellen said she had been saved by the fact she was behind a second oak and the bulk of the enormous oak crashed into that. "I was so shocked I couldn't think straight and I was covered in mud from where I fell," she said. Her husband Einar Einarsson returned to the scene with her. He told the Observer: "If she had moved a split second later, she would not have survived. The tree fell less than a foot from her shoulder." Head forester for the Cowdray Estate Donald Macdonald told the Observer: "The lady clearly had a very lucky escape. This was a big tree of some 30 tonnes. "She was the other side of the other oak and ran in the right direction. "We don't know why the tree came down. "All we can say is it was old age." : http://www.midhurstandpetworth.co.uk/...

Hérna er video þegar vettvangskönnun var gerð daginn eftir hamfarirnar sem ég varð fyrir þegar tréð féll - sem ég hélt að hefði verið grein eða klofnað frá eikinni en þá var þetta Eikin fyrir aftan sem datt ofan á eikina sem ég stóð undir sem skýrir hvers vegna allt varð svona dimmt - ég sem hélt að það væri út af öllu laufinu sem fauk til jarðar - Það skýrir hversu rosaleg hjóðin voru og brestirnir sem ég get ekki lýst með orðum - fötin á jörðinni sýna hvar ég magalenti - eftir að taka þann ofboðslegasta ofursprett frá trénu ( stóð þar sem bingurinn er við hliðina á Einari í upphafi videosins ) en þaðan hljóp ég eins og ég lifandi gat en tókst aðeins að hlaupa svona 15-20 skref þegar ég datt og rak hægri tánna í eitthvað en náði að hlaupa 3 skref áður en ég datt, allt tekið kannski 20 sek frá því ég heyrði fyrsta brestinn - þakka fyrir að hafa ekki dottið einu skrefi aftar... eða tekið sprettinn í aðra átt en ég gerði. Það má segja að þar skall hurð nærri hælum eða ég átti fótum mínum fjör að launa en það er ekki á hverjum degi sem maður fær 20 -30 tonna Eik í höfuðið.

Ég held að það sem bjargaði lífi mínu var að ég leit aldrei upp, sú sek sem hefði tekið að líta upp þá væri ég undir bingnum, og hefði ekki náð að spretta úr spori eins og ég gerði.

Hef verið að hugsa um Eikina sem bjargaði lífi mínu, að hún mun um alla framtíð hafa sérstaka merkingu í mínum huga og heilagleika. :)

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