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[Bingo]

No, people are snapping up westshore houses because they can't afford houses in the core.

 

No, people are snapping up houses in the Westshore because the train* will soon be running again.

*not a VHF stat

[Mike K.]

Quite the scene on Cook at Fort streets where a giant branch has come down onto a delivery truck.

 

Luckily nobody was injured.

 

First photo courtesy of Ken T, two following photos by Paul H.

 

 

 

[Mike K.]

Folks at the scene remarked that a fire truck rolled past back to the station and didn't stop at the scene. Police did not arrive for quite a while following the incident. And city crews were taking photos of the event rather than helping to direct traffic.

 

What's going on down there? That whole tree should be cordoned off until the rest of it can be assessed and declared safe.

[Bingo]

 That whole tree should be cordoned off until the rest of it can be assessed and declared safe.

 

That's a chestnut tree so the rest of Cook Street needs to be cordoned off as well.

So VHF should beware when out and about around chestnut trees.

[todd]

Did it fall with the assistance of the delivery truck or did the tree do it to itself?

[VicHockeyFan]

Did it fall with the assistance of the delivery truck or did the tree do it to itself?

 

That's a good question.  

[todd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-4w5xYLwiU

[VicHockeyFan]

^ So was the tree thinking it could score some ice cream by attacking the truck?  Lisa Helps needs to label that as "desperate" in a press release, to quell the mobs calling for a lynching.

Edited by VicHockeyFan, 10 June 2017 - 04:53 PM.

[todd]

It's perfectly natural for a tree to intentionally squash a prey under its canopy and ultimately provide itself with fertilizer, nothing we haven't done to them.

[Nparker]

...Lisa Helps needs to label that as "desperate" in a press release, to quell the mobs calling for a lynching.

How exactly does one lynch a tree? Hang it from a bigger tree?

[VicHockeyFan]

It's perfectly natural for a tree to intentionally squash a prey under its canopy and ultimately provide itself with fertilizer, nothing we haven't done to them.

Come to think of it my Venus Flytrap does that on a smaller scale. Say, I've not seen three of my pet fruit flies around this week.

[3isenough]

Did it fall with the assistance of the delivery truck or did the tree do it to itself?

Bad timing is my guess, it looks like that branch fell ON the truck. Or good timing if you look at this way; a smaller vehicle, a cyclist or a pedestrian could have been seriously injured.

[VicHockeyFan]

True. Some guy got killed by a tree in Elk Lake Park a few years back. No word on what that tree was thinking.

Edited by VicHockeyFan, 10 June 2017 - 06:02 PM.

[todd]

Come to think of it my Venus Flytrap does that on a smaller scale. Say, I've not seen three of my pet fruit flies around this week.

I've got an industrial-sized bug zapper, hand feed my carnivorouss.

[VicHockeyFan]

True. Some guy got killed by a tree in Elk Lake Park a few years back. No word on what that tree was thinking.

 

EDIT:  maybe he was just paralyzed.

[todd]

EDIT:  maybe he was just paralyzed.

Total toll of organisms is probably in the billions at least.

[todd]

If a tree falls in the forest and you make the statement if nobody is around to hear it does it make a sound you are extremely arrogant.

[Mike K.]

A collision involving a cyclist is causing traffic delays on the Island Highway at Goldstream Avenue. The condition of the cyclist is unknown at this time. Police are on-scene directing traffic.

 

Photo courtesy of Justin S.

 

[RPPB]

Saanich Plaza behind Save-On. Must be a new style of parking I wasn't taught back in the day.

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[todd]

Makes it easier to replace the catalytic converter.