Big and Small both Fall

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Much of the damage Son2 and I saw in the park was away from the campsites in the woods and along the trails. Most of the trails were still closed but we were able to walk down a couple and during one walk we saw these two trees broken off rather high up. My son wondered at the randomness of just those two trees out of the many having broken off like they did while other trees around them held up in the wind. If you look closely at the near tree, you can see that it has a forked trunk. I imagine the fork that broke did so because it was already weakened by the way it was leaning. The smaller tree in the background was either too small to stand up to the wind or perhaps was hit by something falling from one of the larger trees around it. We did not venture far enough into the woods to confirm either theory. Now we are watching H. Michael make its way across the Gulf of Mexico toward our friends on the Florida panhandle. Pray for them, and pray for those in Georgia and the Carolinas, too. If Michael follows his currently forecast track, we could see a lot of rain we desperately don't need.