David Nugent-Malone captures the ground "moving like sea" while walking his dog, Jake.

David Nugent-Malone was walking his dog Jake in Mugdock on a path the pair often visit.

“We’ve walked through that particular section literally hundreds of times before and have never seen anything like that”, Mr Nugent-Malone told the BBC.

The forest around them was relatively calm after the strongest winds hit through the night before, but that particular pocket of woods seemed to “focus the wind to allow it to lift up the woodland floor,” he added - saying the meshed together tree roots lifted like a “muddy table cloth”.

  • lemmylommy@lemmy.world
    368·
    1 year ago

    What a stupid headline. This is not the wind lifting the ground, it is the wind almost pushing over trees with very shallow roots. Trees that will deposit a few hundred kilos of wood on one‘s head once they come down. Trees that will push over their shallow rooted friends like dominoes (which btw is why mixed forests are so important).

    I can’t believe the BBC would publish a video of a Darwin Award contender like that.

  • Odelay42@lemmy.world
    25·
    1 year ago

    Absolutely shocking he let that dog run around on it. If he got under there and the wind stopped for a moment, that dog would have died an angonzing death.