Tree branch kills golfer

Act of nature:

"A GOLFER about to play a shot on a suburban course was killed yesterday in a freak accident when a branch of the giant gum tree she was standing under crashed to the ground."

This is horrible. Certain types of gums drop branches and always will. If gums are planted in the wrong place and they are the wrong type of gum, then people do get hurt and damaged. A friend of mine had one come down on the top of her car in a carpark. It was only the fact she was leaning over to get something from the glove box which stopped her head from being damaged. Ghost gums don't tend to put branches down. The trees are very dry. We have had little rain. They crack, snap and branches come down. It's how the trees cope with lack of moisture.The neighbours had one come down on their roof the other night. Luckily no damage. I took my swimming pool out because the gum I showedyou earlier in my blog, which is massive and on the fence line on the other side in another neighbour's garden, was putting a lot of rubbish into my pool , but a branch dropped and caused quite a bit of damage. I thought we didn't want to be swimming and a branch would come down like that. I feel so sorry for this lady and the people with her. It would be a terrible shock, but gum tree branches are very heavy. They should be in the scrub, not where people are, no matter how brilliant they are as trees. They were made for a land which was huge, dry and unpopulated. I guess it's time to bring in those famous biodiversity experts again because they will know how to manage the trees in that kind of area. People keep wanting to plant native plants at the moment, but the plants don't necessarily match our current lifestyle and environment.