Weird - Texas Trees Are Exploding Due to Cold Weather

Feb 5, 2022

The Helper

Necromancy Power over 9000

Staff member

Residents of a town just north of Dallas, Texas were awoken in the middle of a cold night this week to what sounded like a volley of gunshots outside their home. When they finally made their way outdoors, the residents learned those shocking sounds didn’t actually originate from firearms but were rather the result of exploding trees.

In an interview with local outlet NBC DFW, Princeton, Texas resident Lauren Rever said temperatures during this week’s brutal winter storm had dipped so low it has caused the sap inside surrounding trees to freeze. As the liquid hardened, it expanded, eventually bursting the trees open and emitting a gun-like pop in the process. The popped trees brought down others with it, ultimately destroying Revere’s barn which had collapsed under the debris and a sheet of ice.

“All of a sudden you just hear a great bang and they take out two or three more trees with it,” Rever said.

Texas was one of several states caught in the line of fire of a major winter storm making its way through much of the U.S. this week that left at least 300,000 people without power on Thursday, according to The Washington Post. On Friday, around 22,000 Texans were left without power according to the national outage tracker PowerOutage.us. That included Rever who told NBC DFW she was relying on a propane heater to keep warm. “All of our firewood is frozen,” Rever said.