Buffalo, NY
I just drove to and from Buffalo, NY. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the first snow that we had in Rochester. It was a few minutes of white stuff. Sixty miles west they got two feet of snow, and for October, even for the B-lo, that is rare. And bad.
Because the leaves were still on the trees and the snow was wet, the trees couldn’t handle the weight. They showed it on the national and local news and I read about it in the paper, but driving there today, I was amazed by the decimation of the trees. The further west I went on I90, the more limbs and trees were crumpled over. I can’t imagine what it must be like when you’re not going 72 MPH.
Seeing the felled trees made me think of the Tree Doctor I interviewed. I wonder if they have called him over to help. I wonder if he can help. I’m sure this isn’t the first time something like this has happened in the area, and the trees survive. I guess that is part of nature; growth, weeding out, and the strongest surviving. This is classic survival of the fittest.
There are fires in California and other natural weeding out going on in nature. I guess that is part of it. As I write that, a snow is one thing, but when an arsonist causes the damage, that is something totally different. And when firefighters die because of it, that is just awful.
We can do our part in the natural process, but there isn’t a whole lot we can do when Mother Nature decides it’s time for a Survivor game.