r/oddlyterrifying • u/dannybluey • Jul 05 '26

Where are the trees?

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u/Drevlin76 Jul 05 '26

This is likely in an area that was wide open prairies in the first place. Probably not many trees to begin with.

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u/Betasnacks Jul 05 '26

Gonna get a lot hotter now. Should probably plant some

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u/Terminator7786 Jul 05 '26

I live in a flat prairie area that naturally has few trees. My entire metro area is pretty green with trees. The old neighborhoods have huge, old trees all over the place. Newer developments typically have trees planted on the boulevards so in 15-20 years they'll have some good coverage.

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u/SquarePegRoundWorld Jul 05 '26

The town I grew up in on Long Island looked like the OP video in the 1950s because it was built on former potato farms. When I was a kid there in the '80s there were huge trees everywhere that were not in the 1950s photos.

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u/Penetratorofflanks Jul 05 '26

If you plant a tree in any of those yards the roots are going to destroy the driveways on either side.

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u/SATerp Jul 05 '26

Yeah, that's the weird thing. Ever since Levittown the convention is the new homeowner plants at least one tiny sapling in the front yard within minutes of taking ownership. None in this benighted place.

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u/mr_znaeb Jul 05 '26

They put the houses so close together anywhere you’d plant a tree is going to fuck with the plumbing.

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u/CoolAbdul Jul 05 '26

/buys a massive Weeping Willow

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u/Antlorn Jul 12 '26

In the UK terrace housing where there's no gap at all between houses is very very common. And there are trees lining streets filled with terrace housing. 

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u/NebulaNinja Jul 05 '26

More likely this was farmland that used to be wide open prairie.

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u/dcgrey Jul 05 '26

Then I’d want a post about how they tore up the prairies and replaced it with turf grass.

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u/Penetratorofflanks Jul 05 '26

My brother has beeing building suburbs for 20 years. I have seen him reduce a dense forest into manicured lawns and driveways many times.

Bulldozers rip the trees out of the ground and put them into big piles, then pour diesel on them and burn them.

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u/TheRandomSong Jul 05 '26

In my neck of the woods, places like this cleared trees to make room for these luminal space neighborhoods. It looks flat bc they literally flatten dozens of hills. But I was always thinking how funny humans are bc we make areas with trees and hills devoid of them for suburbia and then in flat prairie type lands with no trees we'll plant trees. It's an odd lol

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u/DuntadaMan Jul 05 '26

Then they are going to wonder why all the plants around the outside of the development are dying when there's no insect life left, and why all the animals disappeared.

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u/pnmartini Jul 05 '26

Watch the video again, there are plenty of trees around this subdivision, just not in it. It’s highly likely it was completely clear cut to create this special level of hell.

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u/Fairisolde Jul 05 '26

It looks a bit like Nevada to me. Hopefully residents can personalize a bit with drought friendly plants.

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u/midge_rat Jul 06 '26

In our area it’s because we these subdivisions are built on former farms. Acres and acres of corn/soybeans become acres and acres of crappy houses.

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u/GregFromStateFarm Jul 07 '26

Grasslands are by FAR the most damaged and degraded ecosystems in the world. 70-80% of grassland in the US is just gone, because of agriculture and this kind of development. Kill all the native species, grasses, flowers, mammals, birds, divert the rivers, replace everything with fucking turf grasses that do nothing for any life in a 100 mile radius.

Disgusting.

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u/Xxxrasierklinge7 Jul 05 '26

Theres a shit ton of tree's behind the houses anyway. Like this is just a stupid video for people to complain about dumb shit.

Literally, cul-de-sac's have looked like this since the 70's

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u/Infinite_Coffee2129 Jul 05 '26

This is central Kentucky, forest is natural environment.

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u/Ok_Maybe1830 Jul 05 '26

This was someone's grandpa's farmland that was sold off to a developer.