It's really fucking windy.

Currently gusting up to 44mph and a NWS high wind warning says gusts up to 75 are possible.

I just got home after being blown off the road 3 times, and saw this in my courtyard:







This is a tree in the Yucca family, and its wood is like iron. They leave them and build around them because it takes very large machinery to cut through them. But Mother Nature had other plans! That's going to be some heavy lifting to get that shit out of the courtyard.

Gleefully stolen from wtf_omgz

5 cm. fir tree removed from patient’s lung

"A five-centimeter fir tree has been found in the lung of a man who complained he had a strong pain in his chest and was coughing blood.

The 28-year-old patient, Artyom Sidorkin, came to a hospital in the city of Izhevsk in Central Russia last week, Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reports.

Doctors x-rayed his chest and found a tumor in one of the lungs. Suspecting cancer, they made a decision to perform biopsy, but when they cut the tissue, they were amazed to see green needles in the cut.

“I blinked three times, and thought I was seeing things. Then I called the assistant to have a look,” says Vladimir Kamashev, doctor at the Udmurtian Cancer Center.

The five-centimeter branch was removed from the patient’s body.

“They told me my coughing blood was not caused by any disease,” Sidorkin says.

“It was the needles poking the capillaries. It really hurt a lot. But I never felt like I had an alien object inside of me.”

It is obvious that a five-centimeter branch is too large to be inhaled or swallowed, doctors say. They suggest that the patient might have inhaled a small bud, which then started to grow inside his body.

Meanwhile, the piece of lung with the little fir tree has been preserved for further study."

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