Mad_Jack
Legend
We got extremely heavy winds (and possibly some rain) all night and most of the morning.
There are a handful of rather large trees on the back edge of our lot that have been falling down in slow motion for the past forty years or so, and I made a point of going out this morning to inspect them for any unwanted high-speed progress. Despite having lived on the same property my whole life, it's still a bit unsettling to see fifty-ft-tall trees with two-ft-wide trunks swaying back and forth like saplings.
Fortunately, most of them, when they do fall, will get tangled up in the branches of the others and still hold each other up, at least until long after I'm gone. There is one, though, that's currently leaning over the back corner of our shed at a 45-degree angle and when it goes won't hit any of the other trees in time to stop it from taking out the shed.
At no other time are those phrases even close to funny (Unless you're part of a Mel Brooks movie.)
