Hurricane Irene Eyewall - Huge Tree Snaps in 80mph Wind Gust - Duck, NC - August 27, 2011

Huge Tree Snaps in Hurricane Irene from an estimated 80mph Wind Gust - Duck, North Carolina on the OBX - August 27, 2011. Video starts showing a tree that snapped earlier, but then around 15 second you hear the cracking of wood and a 40 foot tree fall over missing the adjacent house. If you look extra close you will actually see 2 trees falling because a small tree goes down just before the large one. It is just to the right of the larger one, but is a bit shorter and falls around 16 seconds. This all occurred in the southern eyewall of Irene with winds out of the west.

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[gtcoder2]

Is this in Four Seasons?

[pontiac51]

@gtcoder2 I believe so... my chase partner says he did see a sign indicating Four Seasons.

[liquidstl]

awesome Rob!

[pontiac51]

@liquidstl Should see more of this as it was captured by more than one camera!

[pontiac51]

@NathansUniqueFilms Easy to find them after they are down, but always difficult to be shooting a tree as it falls. I thought I had a electrical pole snapping durring Hurricane Charley, but it turns out I had pressed the standby button on my camera and missed out on a lot of stuff!

[L12weather]

Very cool, friend!

[pontiac51]

@MrJerkinTV This was shot from inside a car.

[huracanado1]

Great video, Rob! It was a truly impressive moment and one of the highlights of the chase of Irene. Greetings from Greensboro-Puerto Rico!

[MrJerkinTV]

@pontiac51 its dangerous . do u stand outside ?

[pontiac51]

@MrJerkinTV Yes, and I'm still in Irene as gusts continue tonight near 60mph in Kitty Hawk, NC.