Here’s a mystery for you, and I haven’t seen one word of this outside of Earthfiles and this KOAT-TV story. I did a double-take at “Miles Standish” myself, but let that pass:
“Thirteen hundred acres, almost 4 miles long, almost a mile wide in places, almost a continuous swath of trees just mowed down,” said Miles Standish with the Santa Fe National Forest.
This is in a very hard-to-reach area requiring an eight-mile hike just to get to the edge of it. The explanations offered by foresters are ludicrious (trees snapped off at the base because they were “waterlogged”?), but then they’re baffled, too. Looks like a one by four mile swath of mountain forest was flattened, apparently during a time when no extraordinary storms were in evidence. There’s a de-activated video link on the KOAT-TV page linked above, with just a still showing.
Seems hard to believe that more attention isn’t being paid to this or other things like it — take a look at these holes in a Russian forest, for example. The so-called “Tungsuka event” is only vaguely similar, and no blast was reported in conjunction with the downed trees here in the Land of Enchantment.
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It’s starting to look like God isn’t so happy with New Mexico, thereby disproving a belief of my late uncle, who had concluded from long perusal of the scriptures that when the civilized world was going to get destroyed, New Mexico (at least far enough up in the mountains) would be spared. He accordingly bought an old bus, stripped out the seats, fitted it up with provisions and survival gear and was ready to make a run for the mountains with his reluctant family (my cousin preferred to hang out at the Dairy Queen) as the fiery day approached. That was back in the town of Coleman, Texas, circa 1967. That old hulk of a bus rusted in his front yard for a long time. Made a good conversation piece.
God isn’t happy with New Mexico?
Good. Do everything you can to spread that notion, it’ll really help.
But your uncle should’ve come. Back then he could have traded his bus for a real home, and he would have had lots of help.