We had a lot of heavy wind and rain for a few days while in California. There were some really bad instances of flooding and mudslides in southern California and up near San Francisco they had even worse flooding. When Liz and I were out walking the dogs we came across this scene! These are palm fronds from some really tall, really old palm trees. If you look closely you can see that the bases of these palm fronds are really thick and solid. Being hit with one of these from a height of 50 feet could do some serious damage to a person! I assume it was the city that came out here and moved all these fallen fronds to the center area of the highway, to keep the street clear, until they can be taken away. We saw instances of these fronds littering other streets as well in certain areas.
Here is an overall photograph of the scene. You can see the height of these trees, and notice that underneath the tops of the green palm fronds, are the older, dead fronds which are susceptible to high winds which will break them off! Wow, who knew this? You learn something new every day!
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