How true it is I don’t know, but it’s often said that a bamboo forest is the safest place to be in an earthquake. Something to do with the tangle of roots perhaps.
Unfortunately the one pictured above is a good two hours from my apartment, meaning that cowering under a worryingly weedy table will have to remain my meagre method of defence.
Nacente says
An a 2 hours long earthquake is not good also. What a peaceful place, at least this image inspires me calmness.
seadragon says
That’s funny. Something about being in a forest of tall trees doesn’t look all that safe…
So where is this grove?
mezameyo says
Bamboo stalks are quite flexible, and their limbs are pretty slender and lightweight. So in a bamboo grove there are no heavy branches to brain you and no crashing trunks to crush you if there is an earthquake.