Five Oak Trees Fall in Front of Emory Law School

Decatur Metro | April 5, 2011 | 12:50 pm

Corky sends in this extraordinary picture of five oak trees that fell on the Emory Law School campus (Clifton & N. Decatur) last night during the powerful storms that swept through the Atlanta area.

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17 Responses to “Five Oak Trees Fall in Front of Emory Law School”

  1. Dave says:
    April 5, 2011 at 1:26 pm

    Quercus mortis.

  2. Keith F says:
    April 5, 2011 at 1:43 pm

    That’s sad. They look like dead soldiers on a battlefield.

  3. Skeptic says:
    April 5, 2011 at 2:05 pm

    sruck down due to lack of standing…

  4. writerchad says:
    April 5, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    Were any lawyers hurt?

  5. cubalibre says:
    April 5, 2011 at 2:12 pm

    Wow. All those years of drought we had must’ve really weakened these poor trees’ root systems. Sad to see.

    • Tom L says:
      April 5, 2011 at 5:59 pm

      I wonder how their treatment as “landscape specimens” affected their health over the years.

  6. V. says:
    April 5, 2011 at 2:34 pm

    Emory also had a pine tree come down on the Michael C. Carlos museum roof. Darndest looking thing. Like the top 1/3 of the tree had been wrenched off and dropped over the roof. But the bottom 2/3 (roughly the height of the building) we intact and not even leaning over.

    Also a pine tree down on White Hall (an admin building). Apparently the Emory area got hammered hard.

  7. Laura says:
    April 5, 2011 at 5:24 pm

    It played hell with traffic this morning, too!

  8. Ridgelandistan says:
    April 5, 2011 at 9:13 pm

    The picture indicates a 71% failure rate which was not seen elsewhere last night. That would seem to indicate a maintenance or design issue. The drought certainly didn’t help.

    Specimen stands seem to have a greater risk to wind as well.
    http://joa.isa-arbor.com/request.asp?JournalID=1&ArticleID=2297&Type=2

  9. Ridgewoodian says:
    April 6, 2011 at 7:38 am

    You can draw a straight line from the tree that fell on White Hall, the Carlos Museum, the Law School and then on houses on Ridgewood and Princeton Way. WIth all trees falling in the same general direction. I think either an isolated tornado or very very strong gust of wind came through and knocked all those down.

  10. George says:
    April 6, 2011 at 9:01 am

    Being that close to so many lawyers for so long, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was suicide.

    (Having gone to the school across the street, I can’t resist any opportunity for a lawyer joke.)

  11. olga says:
    April 6, 2011 at 5:16 pm

    Did anyone hear them fall?

  12. Robbie says:
    April 6, 2011 at 10:55 pm

    Pretty sure there is a good (bad) “Paper Chase” joke here, but am too tired to figure it out.