This is the sight of hundreds, of once mighty trees split and quartered,  that came towards our home in a moment of terror, that is now called the “Testalinda debris flow” in June 2010. It came with in a whisper of changing my family’s existence. The voluminous thunder and cracking of  non-describable power and magnitude,  reduced to a crackling in the hearth of our new family home. The radiating heat is a constant reminder of being on the “breathing side” after an encounter with  a beast of non- proportional size. I  thank the energy that be for sparing those I love.

Words and photo submitted by Chris Jentsch  Oct 2011