HOLY WOOD !!
Posted on November 21, 2007
This is how it looked, just 100 feet away from our house, on November the 4th. After a few days of heavy rain, the soil was so soaked that it gave way to a huge Albizia tree to topple over the main roadway in our community. It happened around 5.oo AM and luckily nobody got hurt. But the 100 foot tree took with him a few poles, the power and phone lines as well as the digital cables. In short, there was no more power available, land line phone or internet connection. This situation lasted for a few days until new poles were set up and all the cables repaired or connected. Did I say it was an Albizia tree ?. Somebody reminded me that I shall collect the wood as it would be sufficient to make a real size canoe inclusive a few paddles. Albizia is a real parasitic tree on our islands, it grows rapidly to heights of up to 110 feet and its wood is very heavy when freshly cut but once dry it will just weigh slightly more than balsa wood. Actually it makes for very light and sturdy shipping boxes.
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