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Tree Falls in Vermont Canyon, Griffith Park Los Angeles

It was a warm, late summer day, about 85 degrees with no wind. I was playing tennis at Vermont Canyon courts when suddenly the thunderous sound of a huge tree branch crashing down stunned everyone. Wood chip dust filled the air and a car lay under the top of a tree branch, damaged. Right before I took this shot I was staring at the tree as it was still attached to the trunk wondering why this happened at that particular time on this particular day when one more wrenching sound occurred and I watched as the still-attached section of the branch snapped from the trunk and the fence beneath it rolled back in submission like a sardine can lid. Nature baby!

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Uploaded on September 18, 2013
Taken on September 12, 2013