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86X 22,000 miles
...After closing up Midwest-Bayless Saturday afternoon, I headed towards Toledo to visit my family for the weekend on this sunny calm day of 85 degrees F.
I was driving down Ohio 229 which runs along the Northern edge of Delaware State Park...top off...listening to nature (I have no radio). I was driving the posted 55mph and heard a large cracking sound. I looked upwards, about forty to fifty feet up and saw a huge tree falling...yes falling...directly into my path. I nailed the brakes, locking them up and leaving some really cool rubber on the pavement...stopping less than two feet from where this tree had decided to land. I immediately backed up a few feet and hit the hazards. Got out of my car looking at what had just happened, in semi shock. A man in a For F-150 was traveling about a quarter mile behind me stopped to assess the situation and asked me what had happened. I pointed up and said "It just fell"! He started laughing and said, "Yeah...I saw that". It took the two of us several minutes to get this tree off of the road and over the guard rail. The whole episode was surreal. We looked at the tree and it appeared to be healthy, full of leaves and no apparent reason for it to come down. I was too shocked to even think about taking any pics of the site, but on my way back I went that way to do so. It was pouring rain then and even the braking tracks wouldn't show up in a photo. I did get out and walk them off, though. 28 feet long...nice and straight. Stock, very used brake pads.
If I would have been in ANY other car, with roof on, or even with the radio playing...I wouldn't have heard the tree cracking and more than likely would have been crushed. This tree was big enough to smash just about anything it would have hit.
Thank you Ugly Brown X...for saving my life!
I was driving down Ohio 229 which runs along the Northern edge of Delaware State Park...top off...listening to nature (I have no radio). I was driving the posted 55mph and heard a large cracking sound. I looked upwards, about forty to fifty feet up and saw a huge tree falling...yes falling...directly into my path. I nailed the brakes, locking them up and leaving some really cool rubber on the pavement...stopping less than two feet from where this tree had decided to land. I immediately backed up a few feet and hit the hazards. Got out of my car looking at what had just happened, in semi shock. A man in a For F-150 was traveling about a quarter mile behind me stopped to assess the situation and asked me what had happened. I pointed up and said "It just fell"! He started laughing and said, "Yeah...I saw that". It took the two of us several minutes to get this tree off of the road and over the guard rail. The whole episode was surreal. We looked at the tree and it appeared to be healthy, full of leaves and no apparent reason for it to come down. I was too shocked to even think about taking any pics of the site, but on my way back I went that way to do so. It was pouring rain then and even the braking tracks wouldn't show up in a photo. I did get out and walk them off, though. 28 feet long...nice and straight. Stock, very used brake pads.
If I would have been in ANY other car, with roof on, or even with the radio playing...I wouldn't have heard the tree cracking and more than likely would have been crushed. This tree was big enough to smash just about anything it would have hit.
Thank you Ugly Brown X...for saving my life!
