Aotearoa / New Zealand

Yeah I spent a day helping clear up at an orchard after Gabrielle and there was a whole field where some younger trees were all just gone. I think what had happened in a lot of places was debris from upstream just washed through at velocity and broke everything above ground level away then pushed it down until it hit a barrier it couldn't get over or around.

And in some places, where that barrier was a bridge the weight of water & debris was enough to wash that away too.