Quote Originally Posted by Too Tall View Post
Anything will burn if you stack it high enough. Just sayin'
Don't I know. One revelation about New England to this born-and-raised Californian is burn season. I had the fire chief pay me a visit a few years back when I was clearing a field.

I bought a second-hand leaf blower, perfect for clearing trails and starting fires.

We had a tornado touch down in Worthington a few years ago: I heard the wind come up and looked up the hill to the East to see any sign in the trees a wisp of cloud formed a funnel and began to drop down between our house and the neighbors to the south. By the time I reached the phone they were already in the basement. A venerable Maple came down a few hundred feet away, its branches twisted like dreadlocks- you couldn't put a chainsaw through them. Up above I found the path through the woods: a group of felled trees along the cliff that is our respective boundary. I've walked along the game trails that traverse the cliff on a windy day and felt the ground flex as the trees bent and their roots struggled to hold them upright.