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Windstorm, December 4, 2003

Windstorm Introduction     Before the Storm      More Windstorm Pictures: Shore Pine

 

    
This Red Oak shows the force of the storm.
    Oaks usually withstand winter storms in western Washington because
    of their tensile strength, deep taproots, and minimal surface
    area without leaves. Even so, this specimen was uprooted and
    fell into an 80-foot Ponderosa pine.

    
 

    
Ckick here
    to see a red oak before the storm, here
    too see how I cut it down from the bottom up, and here
    to see a chair made from it.

    

    

    Pines also usually have taproots, but the
    wood is nowhere near as strong as oak. Even though some of our
    shore pines were uprooted in this storm, pines here are most
    often snapped on the trunk. This Japanese Red Pine broke at the
    twenty-foot level. One other Red Pine and one shore pine experiences
    a similar fate.
 

    
  A large Honey Locust also broke,
    but at the sixteen inch base of the trunk. Like the Red Oak,
    the Honey Locust had lost all of its leaves before the storm.

    
 

    
Click here to
    see a Honey Locust Cedar before the storm.