[pct-l] Bizarre Moment

[Brian McLaughlin]

There is a decent chance they were in the path of what
meteorologists call a 'microburst'. If that is true, they
were very lucky to escape unscathed.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Postholer" <public at postholer.com>
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 4:46 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Bizarre Moment


> Excerpt from Kris & Tom's journal:
> http://postholer.com/journal/viewJournal.php?entry_id=1089
>
> "Around 11am the clouds started to thicken and we heard some low rolling
> thunder. For awhile, nothing happened. The clouds just got thicker. The
rain
> didn't come. Then, all of a sudden, the thunder was no longer low and
> rumbling. It was loud and cracking, and we saw lightning. Before the rain
> came a huge wave of wind swept over the whole valley and the rain followed
> shortly behind. Tom and I were in a stand of trees, many of which were at
> least 100 feet tall. I don't know why this happened, if they hadn't had a
> big storm in awhile, but all of a sudden, trees just started falling down
> around us. They made a cracking sound much louder and more startling than
> the lightning, before they fell. We were terrified of getting hit by a
> falling tree. We looked at each other and both yelled, "Run!" and were
> safely out of the forest and into a meadow a few hundred feet down the
> trail. I have never in my life seen anything like that. It was like being
in
> one of the spooky scenes in a Harry Potter movie. The number of trees
> falling in such a small, dense area was astounding. Weird. Scary. When we
> got into the clearing, we donned our raingear just as it started to hail.
> Fortunately, this whole storm lasted only about an hour and the sun came
> back out shortly thereafter."
>
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