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mel_cache t1_j7ykhfx wrote

Reply to "Beach Logs Kill!" Second Beach, La Push, WA, USA. [OC] [3000x4000] by evilleppy87

Yes, they do. I was on a Washington beach (actually we were walking down the trail to the beach) when a man came running out of the woods carrying a girl about 10-11, yelling “Call an ambulance!!”. The child was limp and bloody. The rest of the family was running after too. Ambulance arrived shortly after he got to the parking lot. Apparently there are huge chunks (6-8 ft diameter) of log there from sequoias and she had been climbing on one when a wave washed up and shifted the log. She fell off it and it rolled over on her. It was awful. I never found out if she survived.

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toastibot t1_j7yi7wl wrote

Reply to An epic winter sunset from Zion National Park, Utah. [1333x2000][OC] by Austinjamesjackson

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davepete t1_j7yejeg wrote

Reply to "Beach Logs Kill!" Second Beach, La Push, WA, USA. [OC] [3000x4000] by evilleppy87

Slightly off-topic, but: my family went to that beach about 10 years ago and my kids played with a boy who appeared to be maybe 10 years old, non-verbal, wild hair, probably Native. He had nobody watching him, but he jumped and played in the waves and made friends with other kids who came to the beach. He'd be about 20 now. Anyone know him? Hope he's doing okay. We enjoyed hanging out with him.

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plantmic t1_j7yb23o wrote

Reply to comment by Solmors in "Beach Logs Kill!" Second Beach, La Push, WA, USA. [OC] [3000x4000] by evilleppy87

Have you ever heard of foreign driftwood? It’s what you call the bits that turn up that aren’t a good match to any nearby tree species. Beyond that there’s also what’s called alien driftwood and those are the bits that are unable to be matched to existing tree species on the planet.

Alien driftwood didn’t show up on a meteor obviously, and it wasn’t planted by ETs, but it probably comes from an ancient sunken forest somewhere in the depths of the oceans. The thing about a lot of alien driftwood is that it still shows signs of active nutrient circulation when it surfaces meaning that it has only died recently!

Somewhere on the bottom of the sea there probably is a living forest. Questions have arisen about the sunken city of Atlantis or other lost civilizations. The problem is, the driftwood bits often contain nested animals - underwater birds and sea-tree frogs. These animals are vicious and super strong and as soon as they’re disturbed they come raging out of their nests and fend off researchers. Soon after that, without fail, a team of elite scuba beavers emerges from the ocean and cuts up the wood and drags it back to sea. We’ve never been able to learn much about these wood pieces because of the elite scuba beavers’ ability to dismantle it so fast.

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