It landed on top of him and pinned him against a tree.

The southern mountains could sure use a rest from all the snowfall recently.

I'm expecting to hear more and more in the next few days. During or just following a storm is when the snow is most unstable. We just want folks to be as safe as they can.

From what we can tell, it appears the lightning hit a tree next to us, came down and came out of the tree and just into some nails that were driven into the cabin to hold the logs together.

This is an event to get people familiar with The Gardens and provide some educational background in tree planting and such. We're going to do some planting, but it's less of a workday and more of a day to celebrate the Earth.

All of us were hoping for four big Christmas presents under the tree in Baghdad. It didn't happen.