[or-roots] Car eating trees

[Cecil Houk]

Well... That car eating tree is out of business now.  It is under at least 100 feet of water.

Cecil


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Chapman" <khanjehgil at presys.com>
To: "Oregon List" <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 8:20 AM
Subject: [or-roots] Car eating trees


> Many a car missed that turn, but they did not miss that tree!  A large patch
> of bark was missing on the side of the tree that faced west (up the hill).
> I'll never forget the day I saw a Buick wrapped around that tree (about
> 1945).  The tree survived, but the 4 occupants of the Buick did not; it was
> on display at a Sweet Home wrecking yard for many years.
> 
> Don't drink and drive!
> 
> It is amazing the number of car eating trees we have in Oregon. I recall one
> just a little ways west of Tiller in southern Douglas Co that probably to
> this day hasn't healed up. It got hit about once every 6 to 9 months the
> whole 7 years I worked in Tiller and last time I was down to visit it had
> fresh scars. The sad thing was the corner wasn't that extreme, but it was a
> "simple" curve. For those who do not understand that, as you enter most
> highway curves, the road goes from being straight into a gradually
> tightening curve for the first part until you get slowed down (hopefully) to
> a speed that you can go around the tight part of the curve at whether it is
> a big curve (radius = 1500 to 2400 feet) or a tight curve (some are less
> than 750 feet or so on two lane roads, I believe) But the tree eating curve
> just starts at about 1500 foot radius from the straight away and goes at
> that radius all the way around. Next time you are on a back country road and
> find a curve that is suprisingly hard to take, if you look at it real close,
> that is probably why.
> 
> There are other places where the trees eat cars on straight stretches
> though, I have to wonder about those, maybe they're magnetic.
> 
> Les Chapman khanjehgil at presys.com
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