Lightning - Nature's Lumberjack

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Lightning - Nature's Lumberjack

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A mild thunder storm rolled through my area earlier this afternoon. After a loud boom, I looked out the window to see this :shock: :

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Luckily the debris flew in the opposite direction of my cars.

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Re: Lightning - Nature's Lumberjack

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The Natural thing to do is use the wood to carve a baseball bat called Wonderboy.

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A couple years ago, my parents had similar lightening damage to a popular tree. I was going to fire up the stihl but decided to hold off. The tree is still alive.

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So every one liked that tree or was it a POPLAR tree? :lol:

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Blame the iPhone for the auto correct wording.

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God called, he heard you needed kindling. :lol:
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