When we were in the Timber Industry, I was running the Skidder and my Brother and one of the workers was falling the trees. As I was backing up to grab another load of Logs, I was looking over my Right Shoulder, when Something told me to look the other way. When I looked to my Left I saw a HUGE Tree falling down and coming RIGHT AT ME!! I had time to switch into Forward and mash the Pedal down. It still hit on me, just missing the Cab, landing on the Cable Drive.
The Worker had been yelling and waving his arms as was my Brother who had dropped the Tree. I never heard them over that load Skidder. I just laughed about it, and that just made my Brother angry. But all was well.
I also watched a large Oak swing on the stump and land on a set of Electric Lines. They bowed to the Earth, but never broke, then launched that Tree like a slingshot skyward. The Giant Blue Ball of Flame that ran between the Lines was like watching an Arch Welder work. It got Bigger then Smaller as the lines touched and then came apart again. Finally it broke free and went flying down one of the lines until it went out of sight. I could feel the Power the whole time as I was only a few feet away as it happened. Crazy.
I've also been out in the woods and heard a Tree just radomly fall. I always think "what if I had been in that or by that when it fell?".