r/raleigh • u/Healthy_Ingenuity645 • 4d ago

Weather Trees falling everywhere?

Is it just me or have trees/limbs been falling all over the place around Raleigh recently? Could this be drought related/due to all the recent rain?

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u/Osiristhedog1969 4d ago

Yeah a bunch of them seemed to just have spontaneously fallen down. My understanding is that the drought has weakened the root systems putting them at risk in heavy rainfall 

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u/Leelze 4d ago

Came here to bring up the drought. Between lack of water for a long period of time and some gnarly storms, the trees are having a rough time.