I wish it were the case, catfishjohn, LOL. 35 HUGE ones today in northern Washington County. All were between 4-7 inches and still in good shape. And I saw--and heard--something I've never before encountered: a dead tree fell over, taking a large branch of an adjacent living tree, girdling it to the base! I was about 50 feet downhill from it. I'll never forget it. Of course, my mind instantly went in two divergent places... 1. The enigma, "If a tree falls in the forest..." and 2. Was this some sort of bad omen?! :-|