When Trees Attack: Woman Impaled by Falling Limb
September 20, 2009 · Print This Article
Trees are not always our friends. Just ask Sonny Bono… oh, wait, you can’t. Because A TREE KILLED HIM. Well, you can ask Michelle Childers, the woman who miraculously survived being impaled in the neck by a wayward tree limb that was hell-bent on destruction.
Childers was enjoying a leisurely drive on a rural road in Idaho on September 5th with her husband when a spruce tree crashed through the passenger side window of the vehicle. All she felt was a “strange pressure” as her husband told her she’d been impaled.
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They drove to a nearby lodge for help, and a helicopter transported her to the hospital where the tree limb was safely removed after 6 hours of surgery.
The photos and video are a gruesome reminder that just about anything, no matter how innocent it may seem, can be deadly. Watch out for that tree!
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I should add that sleeping under unhealthy trees is something you should avoid. Pitching a tent in a forest that is diseased due to bark beetle or has burned is a bad idea despite the desire for shade.
I volunteered to remove downed trees across the Mount Waterman Trail in Southern California using crosscut saws with other volunteers and the USFS. We spent two grueling days in the heat cutting huge fallen trees with hand saws and hauling them off the trail.
Spending the night on Twin Peaks Saddle we recalled the hazard summary we had read in the morning before setting out so we avoided the trees and spread out in the open under the stars.
During the night a tree limb came crashing down through the branches in the trees about where myself and another volunteer were sleeping exhausted and sweaty in the night. Bark beetle and pollution from the greater Los Angeles and surrounding counties had conspired to make many hundreds of thousands of trees unhealthy, and even when awake and walking one has to constantly look up, around, ahead and behind one.