Year of the Dragon
I wasn't there, I didn't hear it
January - Matt Hobbs
Storm Isha was particularly bad in our area. Our road seems to act like some kind of wind tunnel, and there is a 300-year-old copse at the end of it. Unfortunately, one of the old trees was a victim of the storm.
As you can see from the picture, the tree's roots were ripped right out of the ground. Thankfully, nobody was around, and the only victims were a low fence and the back window of a black Ford Focus!
The local council came quickly to cut it into sections to unblock the thoroughfare through the woods - not that you'd want to walk through it at the moment! It's so muddy due to all the rain.
As I wasn't there when it fell, I didn't finally get to answer the philosophical thought experiment: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?