I was at a small park Thursday eating lunch in my truck, and under a large oak tree . it was leaning toward me and a friend said that the tree would soon fall.. as it was leaning over and the earth behind it was bulging up. I went home and Friday went by the park on the way to my Dr. the tree was down and was being cut up.. It had falling during the night , had it fallen while I was there it would have fallen on me and my truck killing me and possibly 5 Females eating at a nearby pick nick table.. the largest branches completely filled the parking space I was in.............lesson learned ... do not park under leaning trees no matter the Weather..that was too close. the stump was 32 in across..

There's a reason they are called widowmakers.

A bout 20 years ago, I was driving home on an interstate with my wife and 5 of our 6 kids. I saw headlights in our lane coming at me and, of course, it took a few seconds to register. There was a car next to us so I floored it and pulled in front of the other car just in time as a 3/4 ton pickup went flying by. Of course my wife and kids had no idea what I was doing until the truck flew by. They were all shocked that at least my wife and I could have died.

Some years back my then-wife and I were on our way back to Texas after New Years. Though no snow was forecast, on the Interstate south of Morgantown WV after dark we drove into a blizzard. In no time at all the highway lane markers were covered and you couldn’t see through the falling snow where the road was, didn’t dare stop either because you’d be hit from behind. I was driving blind, wife and dogs in the car.

At one point we were passed by hardly visible semi truck lights above us and to our right, we musta been out n the far left shoulder, the truck behind that one let us inch over and we fell in behind the first truck, his taillights barely visible.

Everyone was getting off at the next exit , so did we, spent the night in the car. Woke up to about eight inches of snow and 9 F.

I just drove that same stretch this summer in daylight, hills and curves, dunno how we stayed on the pavement.

We just had one of these this past weekend, 25 yo Nurse and a friend in a Nissan Rogue in a head-on at 2:45am with a drunk in an F350.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/l...n-killed-in-crash-16374236.php#taboola-1

Tent cabin on USFS trail crew, in a grove of big aspen and spruce. 10 days on/ 4 days off. Came back after weekend to find a big tree had come down through the middle of the tent.

"But that's OK", said the foreman. "Only Gary would have been killed outright."

Drawing down on a big moose, about to pull the trigger. His head was partially screened by some light alder leaves, his body completely obscured by the lower brush, so all I could see was one antler, an eye, and an ear. The 250 gr just left of the eye would not have been impeded at all.

Without a sound, a big- maybe 30 lb- cottonwood limb crashed to the ground beside me, less than a foot away.

I took that as a sign. (when I came down)..... and so did the bull, (before I came down).

Driving on 6" if glare ice in an F150, 10 foot of 2" steel pipe in the back. Lost control, into the ditch, sudden stop. The pipe popped up and came forward, taking out my driver's side mirror. The nape of my neck still crawls just thinking about it.

I was coming home from Albany N.Y. on I 87 in a snow storm. 3 lane highway, i was driving my Expedition in the left lane,wide passing a guy in a car in the right lane.I saw a lump ahead of me in the left lane and i swerved into the middle lane and just missed a stopped car in the left lane,half covered in snow,no flashers on,idiot just sitting there next to the guardrail.I just missed him,guy in the right lane pulled up next to me and rolled down his window,"HOLY [bleep]!. your not kidding.That would have been a catastrophic accident,dead all around.That was a hand of God one for sure.

Drunks, Sleeping and suicides.

I dont camp near dead trees or under those with dead branches.

Lot of people killed yearly in windy forests.

Dont camp by huge oaks if the ground is saturated either. Small winds topple them.

This reminds me of the time Fireballz started choking on his breakfast burrito and found The Jeebus.

LOL

A Tennessee teen practicing his surfing technique got upstaged by a shark last week, when the rambunctious predator burst from the ocean a few feet away and began a series of Olympic-style spins.

It happened Friday off North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, according to the teen’s mother, Kaci Allen. She identified the surfer as her 15-year-old son, Ethan, whom she calls “E.”

Her video shows Ethan’s surf board crossed over the shark a split second before it jumped from the water.
I didn’t even realize we’d captured the shark jumping up right after he pulled his feet up on the board!

I didn’t see this one until he was scrolling through videos! ... Seriously though, (as) soon as E pulled his feet up! ... We’ve seen sharks in the water before, but never captured video of one; they’re fast!”

The family lives near Nashville, Tennessee, but Kaci Allen is a Myrtle Beach native, according to her Facebook page.

It’s believed the shark was a young spinner shark, a species common off South Carolina that grows to about 6 feet and 120 pounds, according to Sciencing.com. Spinner sharks are not considered a threat to humans, the site says.

“This shark hunts by rapidly swimming upward into a school of fish while spinning and biting in all directions,” Sciencing.com reports. “It often breaches the water surface and spins through the air, which is how it gets its name.”

That shark was long arming him.

I consider the guys next to me getting shot and I didn't a "close" call.

That just sounds lucky, but hours away from "close."

Friday a westbound trucker had a car brakecheck him on the Narrows Bridge
over the river. His load, a steel mill roll(20' long x 20odd inches solid steel)
broke lose,
went through the headache rack,
through the bunk,
And pushed his seat forward. Bending the frame it's mounted on.

No injuries.

I spend a lot of time there feeding the squirrels , I was lucky I left when I did..there was no storm of any kind... no wind or anything to cause the tree to fall.. except Heat it was 92 most of the day..

Spinner shark, wasn't trying to attack him, just doing what spinners do.

too many to remember. 2 or 3 involving trees falling near me. made me very conscious of what is over my head.

probably most puckering was when i was cruising along on the PA turnpike on my bike about 70 mph and had not one, but two tires/wheels come off a flatbed truck and narrowly miss me. i'm talking like 5 feet. i never realized how tall tractor trailer tires were until one went right past me. sucky part was i still had a couple hundred miles to go.

Agree, just though the video capture was unique and kinda cool.

Our house was struck by lightening last week. I have never seen anything like that. There was 4 large booms and flashes right next to our house.....sounded like it was in the living room. It was just on the other side of our windows. It fried our wireless router, signal booster, cordless phone, and modem. I was even on the computer at the time, and nothing happened to it. I guess my extra ground wire and surge protector worked like it was supposed to.

Close call near every day. Especially if one gets in his rig.

Had a crotch rocket when I was 20 and noticed on the gauges that the thing red lined at 145 mph. Of course I was young and invincible so I had to test that theory. I could tell you two things for sure after that. 1. That dashed lines at that speed are solid, and 2. I would never do that schit ever again.

12 ton pot of molten fiberglass came off the gantry at Johns Manville. Stubbs McNutt and was burned pretty bad. I seen it start to topple and I dove behind a rack of empty hogsheads.

It was 10 at night, I was in my extended cab chevy at a stop sign waiting to turn left.
I see headlights rapidly approaching the stop sign to the left.
Instantly an enormous impact hits me right behind my driver's seat, the impact is so great that it flips my truck onto its roof, collapsing the roof and breaking out all the windows.
Change from my console rains down on me.
My first thought as I am hanging upside down is to turn off the key, I really didn't want to burn to death.
My wife is screaming.
I popped my seat belt and flopped onto the ceiling and crawled out the broken window.
My wife could not open her seat belt, so I ran to the other side, crawled in her broken window and released her.
She had cuts from the broken glass but was otherwise OK.
I suffered a few bruises.
We were lucky to survive that....
Turns out the dude was drunk off his ass and hit us at 60 mph.
I don't ever want to do that again.

Pier at that beach was where the world record tiger shark was caught.

Motorcycle accident at over 60mph.
The teenager hits a flat bank head first.
He feels the pain, especially in the neck.
Everything is black.
"Is this hell???"
He's conscious and can feel the pain, but not see the light of day.

Eventually he realizes that he is literally impacted the hill so hard, it drove his head and shoulders into the soil.
He pushed himself out, and the front wheel was buried.
The tail end up.

The boy somehow survived.

You just never know.

It wasn't hell, but what is your destiny everyone?
You can decide for yourself tonight.
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Had three tiers of a tobacco barn collapse on me when I was a kid. Got lucky, got a glancing blow to the head with a tier rail that knocked me out but didn't break anything. One of my ankles was caught between two collapsed tier rails and they had a heck of a time digging me out, but I was in la-la land for most of it.

Never had any close calls, glad you fellas dodged the bullet. Wait....uh....

OK, I had one. A7 zooming in to drop some stuff on annoying Dinks. The FAC had changed the attack path w/o telling us rotorheads. Snake lead screamed on the radio for me to dive right so I did. The A7 went by on the left close enough that I could hear it and see that the pilot had his visor up and wore aviator sunglasses. And he had a mustache.

I was very impressionable back then.

You make up the darndest stories. Quite an imagination.

Dayum son

We still have all the Burley racks and tiers (rough cut Poplar 2x4)nailed up in our barn. I can visualize what youre saying.

I have Mopar parts stretched across some of them now. Great racks for Road Runner and Challenger sheet metal.