THE GREAT STORM OF 1987
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THE GREAT STORM OF 1987
It shouldn’t have happened but….
•The trees were still in leaf
•It had been a particularly wet autumn
•It was the wrong wind
If you put all those factors together even the best of trees will fall over because they are simply not prepared for the circumstances and they probably could have fallen over in much lighter winds.’
A perfect storm?
Clergy retirements?
Financial Pressures?
Ageing Buildings?
‘If you put all those factors together even the best of trees will fall over because they are simply not prepared for the circumstances and they probably could have fallen over in much lighter winds.’
BUT, some woodlands survived the storm. WHY…???
….because they had been nurtured and maintained.
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