Pictures of pine trees after Camille

[m_ru]

I stumbled across various pictures of tree damage from various hurricanes. One of those hurricanes happens to be Camille. http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/su ... ?SUB=17680

Some observations of mine: The pines in the Camille pictures are of the longleaf/slash variety. These pines have proved time and time again to hold up much better in high wind as opposed to loblolly. The pines in the Katrina pictures are loblolly. The pines in the Frederic pictures look like loblolly except for the last one. Those look like slash pine. I can't tell with the Hugo ones.

(The difference between loblolly and the longleaf/slash pines is the needle length. The needles are longer on the slash and much longer on the longleaf. Slash/longleaf needles are also spaced more sparingly on the branches.)

[Frank2]

Interesting link - I remember seeing a similar scene in South Carolina two years after Hugo...

[Regit]

Those Hugo pictures are almost certainly from the leveled part of Francis Marion National Forest, so they'd be longleaf pines.

[BigO]

As you drive along the interstate, the tree damage from Katrina begins in Tuscaloosa, AL and gets progressively worse the closer you get to the coast. My folks lost 2 big hickory trees there in Tuscaloosa.

[jasons2k]

That is precisely why, even though we are 80 miles inland, we almost evacuated for Rita as we are surrounded by full grown loblolly pines. The Woodlands would have been utterly devastated.