Sentences with phrase «old trees fall»

During a recent windstorm, an old tree fell in our yard and crushed our detached garage.

The group has just finished installing the largest new shade area, measuring 35 feet square, to replace the loss of a 40 - year - old tree felled by a microburst storm.

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In Brunswick, Georgia, large chunks of ice fell on commuters» cars from the old oak trees that frame the streets.

In the hills above this chestnut tree and in the woods behind my house lie dead trunks, decades old — some of them more than three - quarters of a century fallen.

In response to the age old question whether or not there is a tree falling if there is no one present to see or hear it fall, process thought answers that indeed there is such a tree.

So these morning hours always feel like my own hours, whether I'm lying in bed, wide awake, watching the trees, or whether I'm sitting at a coffee shop table on a holiday Monday, alone, watching the rain fall and listening to old songs from the 90s.

Little sparks catch a dry patch of dry leaves or twigs, then fallen trees and on to old forest growth.

This one is atop an old birch tree and the rain is falling straight down on him.

An 11 year old boy named Richard Fehr was crushed to death by a fallen tree at Pines Bible Camp in Grand Forks, BC.

Basically, the person WENT to wherever it is that they make coconut sugar and not only do they use trees that are too old to produce coconuts, but they also use the trees that are closest to the plantation buildings which prevents unwanted injury from falling coconuts.

See, just a couple days ago this old hackberry tree fell on his house and...

If I have a big, old oak tree in my backyard that children like to climb, should I also send those kids home with a contract stating that if they break their arm falling out of my tree, it's not my fault?

It's too bad that the old - fashioned notion of summer as endless free time — to climb trees, chase fireflies, build a fort in the woods, maybe set up a lemonade stand — has fallen by the wayside.

When my son was 12 - days - old, a tree fell on a power line five miles from our home and started a forest fire.

So despite wanting to be green and eco friendly and etc. we got rid of them along with a pair of inappropriately holey jeans, a raggedy wash cloth that mildew smell wouldn't come out of after the 5th consecutive year of wiping tiny hands and faces, cardboard boxes we hadn't recycled and some good old - fashioned fallen tree.

A massive 250 - year - old tree that fell in Barnstable Village has been transformed into a Nature Play Area.

As the old saying goes, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Cuomo said Wednesday that falling trees in Newburgh claimed the lives of an 11 - year - old girl in a parked car and a woman who was driving.

A 58 - year - old woman visiting Mount Saint Mary College's Desmond Campus in the Town of the Newburgh became the Hudson Valley's third storm - related fatality and second from Orange County when a tree fell on her vehicle, police said.Lisa Resnick, of Rosendale in Ulster County, was killed around 5 p.m. Tuesday as she was sitting in her vehicle on the campus when a large tree struck the...

Crews felled hundreds of trees, some of them 400 years old.

In the Rockland County village of Chestnut Ridge, an 80 - year - old woman was killed when a tree fell on top of her vehicle as she was driving on Red Schoolhouse Road Tuesday, Ramapo police said.

The storm has been blamed for three deaths: two in Connecticut, and one in Newburgh, where authorities said an 11 - year - old girl was killed when a tree fell on a parked car while she was inside.

He also rejected the developers» preferred Timber Lane — which he said was intended to be a direct snub to neighbors outraged by the felling of 400 - year - old trees to make way for the new homes.

An 11 - year - old Hudson Valley girl was killed by a falling tree as a line of intense storms rolled through the area.

Beke was driving to his office along Forces Avenue, Old GRA in a black Toyata SUV with five persons on board when a tree along the road side fell on the moving vehicle and crushed the car.

The Savo Brothers had offered an alternative list of names that included «Timber Lane,» which Oddo wrote was a direct snub to neighbors outraged about the felled 400 - year - old trees on the property.

The storm is blamed for two deaths in Newburgh in Orange County, where an 11 - year - old girl and a woman were hit by falling trees while in separate vehicles.

In separate incidents, an 11 - year - old girl and a 58 - year - old woman were killed when trees fell on the vehicles in which they were sitting in the Newburgh area.

In the city of Newburgh, 11 - year - old Gina Garzon was killed when a tree fell on a vehicle she was in on Robinson Avenue about 4:15 p.m. Tuesday.

There is a noticeable absence of small trees — big, old cottonwoods can be seen, some of them fallen, but no little ones growing up to replace them.

It was just a few days old when it fell into a pool of sap oozing from a conifer tree.

Analyses of tree rings from more than 150 living trees in the Russian Altai - Sayan Mountains, as well as more than 500 older trees that have fallen to the ground there, provide a complete chronicle of climate stretching from 359 B.C.E. to the year 2011.

Distracted by distress over feeling slow, old and unfit, I tripped on a tree root and fell hard, scraping flesh off my left elbow and bloodying my knee.

The older trees are also very tall and the coconuts falling from these heights are extremely hazardous to the roof tops, homes and humans below.

Basically, the person WENT to wherever it is that they make coconut sugar and not only do they use trees that are too old to produce coconuts, but they also use the trees that are closest to the plantation buildings which prevents unwanted injury from falling coconuts.

Among the fallen trees and branches, rotting tree stumps, tangle of vines and branches, and in the shade of the huge old trees that leaned precariously to one side or the other, I would play for all day.

The beautiful old trees and piles of fall leaves were absolutely breathtaking!

I especially love sitting in the living room and looking in at the glistening tree lights through the nearly 100 year old glass... even when there is a falling star tree topper hanging on the side of the tree.

Growing up we lived in older neighborhoods with huge trees which meant huge piles of leaves each fall.

The leaves are starting to fall off of the trees, we are losing three minutes of daylight each day this month and Old Man Winter is starting to knock on the door, reminding me to get the furnace checked, purchase new snow boots for the kids, figure out Halloween costumes and clear out some clutter so I can organize some closets and rooms in a few months when I begin my annual hibernation!

I live on acreage in an old growth forest where I listen to the owls, see coyotes, and use fallen trees to build fences.

If the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, perhaps, and that is the hope, Max will follow in footsteps of his father (and for the record, I'll defend Anthony Minghella «s The English Patient until I'm old and grey).

Mother Nature's the star, though Tree Of Life's exceptional moppet performances are heralded by 16 - year - old Linda Manz, guilelessly narrating the grown - ups» (including Richard Gere) fall into a treacherous three - way romance.

School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

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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!

And so I asked myself a variation of that age old conundrum — if a tree falls down in a forest and there's no one to hear it, does it make a noise?

You've heard the old saying, «If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?»

So begins Andrew Solomon's Far From The Tree, a large (literally, it's 700 pages without the endnotes) and largely captivating book that deals with the flip side of the age - old adage to which its title refers, asking: What if the apple does fall far from the tTree, a large (literally, it's 700 pages without the endnotes) and largely captivating book that deals with the flip side of the age - old adage to which its title refers, asking: What if the apple does fall far from the treetree?