Big old trees + wind = bad

"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures) 10/12/2020 at 11:42 • Filed to: Still the Apocalypse

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We had a big wind storm last Wednesday, with winds gusting over 70 mph. The storm knocked over trees across the region and left tens of thousands in the dark. This particular tree found an unfortunately placed Nissan Rogue.

Don’t see it? How about now?

Those photos were taken Thursday. By Friday they’d cleaned the tree up enough to make the road passable, but it was still on the car.

Yesterday the tree was finally gone and the extent of the damage was fully visible.

Ouch.

HammerheadFistpunch > Dusty Ventures 10/12/2020 at 11:50

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Looks familiar, we had an inland hurricane a little while ago and man alive...so many uprooted trees.

This was in the relatively unaffected area. There was one cemetary up north that was like 50% downed trees.  Hundreds.  

Kiltedpadre > Dusty Ventures 10/12/2020 at 11:51

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HoustonRunner > Dusty Ventures 10/12/2020 at 11:58

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Modern high strength steel is great, but nature’s going to win that one.  Glad no one was inside at the time.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Dusty Ventures 10/12/2020 at 12:01

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One more pass!

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Dusty Ventures 10/12/2020 at 12:01

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Nissan Rogue cross-cabriolet?

duurtlang > Dusty Ventures 10/12/2020 at 12:08

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And nothing of value was lost.

What’s going on with the white lettering on those tires though?

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Dusty Ventures 10/12/2020 at 12:13

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Hey, that door still looks perfectly good!

It’s amazing though how much force was transmitted to completely flatten it like that. Modern cars like a Rogue have pretty strong roofs but it’s kind of a flatmobile now.

Dusty Ventures > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 10/12/2020 at 12:19

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I said the same thing about the door on my Instagram. Amazing it left the door almost completely unscathed while completely destroying everything right behind it

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Dusty Ventures 10/12/2020 at 12:27

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Because it would have to have crushed the roof at an angle to deflect the roof structure to the side away from the doors to not crush them. What’s odd is that the rear door got totally squashed.

Cash Rewards > Dusty Ventures 10/12/2020 at 12:55

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This serves as your reminder that, no matter how safe and strong you build cars, trees still win. Trees do not fuck around.

smobgirl > Dusty Ventures 10/12/2020 at 12:59

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I have an old tree I’m saving up to cut down. My neighbor parks her Rogue wayyyyyy too close to it. I, on the other hand, keep praying it falls on the Fiat since it still has comprehensive coverage.

66P1800inpieces > Dusty Ventures 10/12/2020 at 13:03

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In high winds I play the car shuffle to find the best place to avoid trees and limbs. We just had to have our pine tree cut down bc it was dying and I was afraid of something similar happening but falling on my house.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Dusty Ventures 10/12/2020 at 13:19

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In my best John Candy impression, "that ought to buff right out, no problem."

Dusty Ventures > smobgirl 10/12/2020 at 13:20

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That poor Fiat

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Dusty Ventures 10/12/2020 at 13:58

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What I wouldn’t do for those logs...

BeaterGT > Dusty Ventures 10/12/2020 at 14:17

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Dusty Ventures > BaconSandwich is tasty. 10/12/2020 at 14:21

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Dude, if you were up this way people would literally pay you to take them

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Dusty Ventures 10/12/2020 at 14:41

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I seriously need to finish my homemade band saw mill.

onlytwowheels > Dusty Ventures 10/12/2020 at 16:23

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A tree ca me down in that same storm a mile from the house. The road was impassible, a power line and tree blocking the way. I didn’t realize it since my power never went out. I t reall y messed up my morning commute, e asily added 20 minutes back tracking and detouring .

pip bip - choose Corrour > Dusty Ventures 10/13/2020 at 03:40

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one less Rogue on the road has to be a good thing.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > smobgirl 10/13/2020 at 08:07

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I can relate to this. I can’t wait to get a new car and secretly hope a tree falls on my current daily any time there is a storm.