David Nugent-Malone was walking his dog Jake in Mugdock on a path the pair often visit.
“We’ve walked through that particular section literally hundreds of times before and have never seen anything like that”, Mr Nugent-Malone told the BBC.
The forest around them was relatively calm after the strongest winds hit through the night before, but that particular pocket of woods seemed to “focus the wind to allow it to lift up the woodland floor,” he added - saying the meshed together tree roots lifted like a “muddy table cloth”.
What a stupid headline. This is not the wind lifting the ground, it is the wind almost pushing over trees with very shallow roots. Trees that will deposit a few hundred kilos of wood on one‘s head once they come down. Trees that will push over their shallow rooted friends like dominoes (which btw is why mixed forests are so important).
I can’t believe the BBC would publish a video of a Darwin Award contender like that.
Absolutely shocking he let that dog run around on it. If he got under there and the wind stopped for a moment, that dog would have died an angonzing death.
I would not stand so close to that…
If the Police were there, they would have told him don’t stand so close.
They would have told him at least three times. Don’t stand so. Don’t stand so. Don’t stand so close…
Don’t stand so close to treeeeees.
Such an uplifting story.
I’m absolutely floored
