Lightning struck a tree in our yard last night

[Minerva]

We had a horrible storm last night and one of the strikes sounded like a cannon right outside my window. When I went out to check my flowers this morning I saw the damage.

Tree

Will this tree die? Some tell me it will die in a year or two and others say no. I hope it doesn't. -M

 

[bonkers325]

its been impregnated by Zeus. you will have demi-god saplings soon.

 

[Phoenix86]

If it doesn't die it'll be a really cool tree.

 

[Trikat]

BATTLE SCARS! ROAR!

 

[z0mb13]

were you praying near the tree??

 

[Hammerhead]

-Cut it down
-make baseball bats out of it
-PROFIT

 

[archiloco]

won't kill it, might loose some foliage, but the damage looks superficial.....even though the most important part of the tree is it's outer skin, it looks like enough of it was untouched.

 

[alien42]

if the bark was gone around the tree it would die since bark (actually the cambium layer) is how nutrients are carried up the tree from the roots but i would say this tree will live.

 

[CaptnKirk]

Pines usuall die after this kind of strike, the needles will brown out as it dies, watch it for the next 6 months to a year.
It's the ground path that the electricity took, and it boils out the water where it ran down through the bark.
Water Oaks do survive the streak.

I can show you several dead pines in the area around where we used to live in Orlando (Casselberry) where pines were snuffed that way -
it takes about 5 years before the dead stick falls down.

 

[Runes911]

Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
Pines usuall die after this kind of strike, the needles will brown out as it dies, watch it for the next 6 months to a year.
It's the ground path that the electricity took, and it boils out the water where it ran down through the bark.
Water Oaks do survive the streak.

I can show you several dead pines in the area around where we used to live in Orlando (Casselberry) where pines were snuffed that way -
it takes about 5 years before the dead stick falls down.

Umm I'm no expert but thats not a pine tree. I would guess oak?

 

[IdioticBuffoon]

Cool.

 

[Cooler]

My pine tree survived a Lightning strike and it was much smaller.

 

[Jack Ryan]

Originally posted by: Hammerhead
-Cut it down
-make baseball bats out of it
-PROFIT

:thumbsup:

 

[Minerva]

It's an oak tree, probably over 100 years old. -M

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I will probably be OK, but you need to watch it as it is now open and prone to sap suckers and other ailments.