The Guadeloupe prefecture said one person was
killed by a falling tree and at least two people were missing in a shipwreck.
An 11 - year - old Hudson Valley girl was
killed by a falling tree as a line of intense storms rolled through the area.
Around 100 people are
killed by falling trees each year, while this number isn't high, it is high enough to take heed.
* I got slammed for writing about a poor, poor woman in Queensland whose child was
killed by a falling tree in the floods.
Not exact matches
There's an old saying about the risks of being
killed by a
falling coconut: there are statistics, but the important part is everyone who got hit
by a coconut was standing under a coconut
tree at the time!
The drought that
killed the
trees could intensify because of the intricate relationship between the rainforest and the rainfall, in which
trees play a role in maintaining a pattern of precipitation
by pumping
fallen water back into the atmosphere.