‘Speed hump’ by Helen Betts

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16-May-2025	Tim Betts

‘Speed hump’

This just happened around the corner from our house, during a thunderstorm. Seems like we’re seeing more and more of this in our neighborhood, which admittedly does have a lot of big trees.

Not hard to guess what this restaurant serves, posted earlier:

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Danad		18-May-2025 07:59
A chance no one was inside one of these cars ! A very sad scene... V

Denise J T Lee		18-May-2025 04:40
This is a side street, not too wide, and I see that on the left side within a short distance there were 4 big trees including this one. There might not be enough space or water for all the roots to share. So some roots could dry up and become brittle. When there's a storm, the tree just loses the grip and falls. ~V~

Blandine Mangin		17-May-2025 18:53
pauvre arbre ! une scène difficile bien captée nous manquons tellement d'arbre, c'est dur de les voir par terre ! v

John Hamers		17-May-2025 13:08
Hopefully nobody was hurt.....always scary to see these things happening.

Ton, Ben & Rob Nagtegaal		17-May-2025 12:16
A lot of damage that no one is happy about, well documented. V

Liz Bickel		17-May-2025 09:02
Hope no one was hurt!!!

victorswan		17-May-2025 07:00
that is what we are going to get more and more, that is the result of our great top people who are completely destroying the earth just to increase their own capital, this is again bad luck for these persons who are experiencing it here hopefully no injuries. bv

Gerard KOEHL		17-May-2025 06:26
C'est triste de voir tomber des grands arbres comme ça. V

laine		17-May-2025 05:35
Proof that nothing lasts ( or grows ) forever :(

Arnie Peterschmidt		17-May-2025 04:30
Wow, that's unfortunate. Nice composition.

Dennis Hoyne		17-May-2025 03:15
NIce catch, a bit of damage to the parked vehicles.

joseantonio		17-May-2025 02:55
wow, hope nobody got hurt.v.

Don Mottershead		17-May-2025 01:20
I hope everyone is safe. Did you get a look at the broken trunk? I wonder if the trees are starting to rot.

globalgadabout		17-May-2025 01:03
certainly an effective barrier to speeders...

janescottcumming		17-May-2025 00:57
Looks like a couple of cars got smashed. Hope there was another way around. V

Carl Carbone		17-May-2025 00:51
Wow! Nice shot of the damage.

Julie Oldfield		17-May-2025 00:40
So scary. I hope no one got hurt. Well documented destruction. V

Dan Greenberg		17-May-2025 00:04
Wow! That is scary. The same thing happened at my daughter's house in Silver Spring. I crushed their neighbor's car. ~V~

Raymond		17-May-2025 00:01
Quite a speed bump! That reminds me when I was at a resort in the US Virgin Islands (Bolongo Bay) and the first day I was there, I noticed a sign that warns of the sleeping policeman ... well, I looked for him, where the hell was he hiding. It took me a couple days to figure out that they call speed bumps, sleeping policeman! Anyways, I hope you guys got to clean that mess. I'm sure Trump would say that the tree fell 'coz of Joe Biden ...