...and the lightening strikes
Lightning struck the tree that supports this tree house at the Mick and
Jodee Caulkins place on Arnold Ave., Port Allegany, at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday,
tearing off bark and pieces of the structure. Then it rode the zip line
attached to another tree, just as Gage, Shaylee and Briar Caulkins and
their friends would do to alight from the tree house platform.
Apparently this playful lightning bolt wanted a campfire, for it ignited
the tree at the other end of the line. That tree was still blazing
furiously Friday
morning, creating a triple fireplace effect at the base, with smoke
venting through some holes in a trunk seemingly little damaged on the
outside. The tree was felled soon after that, but continued to smoulder. Martha Knight Photo
Lightning struck the tree that supports this tree house at the Mick and
Jodee Caulkins place on Arnold Ave., Port Allegany, at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday,
tearing off bark and pieces of the structure. Then it rode the zip line
attached to another tree, just as Gage, Shaylee and Briar Caulkins and
their friends would do to alight from the tree house platform.
Apparently this playful lightning bolt wanted a campfire, for it ignited
the tree at the other end of the line. That tree was still blazing
furiously Friday
morning, creating a triple fireplace effect at the base, with smoke
venting through some holes in a trunk seemingly little damaged on the
outside. The tree was felled soon after that, but continued to smoulder. Martha Knight Photo
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