I suppose pine needles are like rain, and pine cones are like hail.

And the heavy green pine cones? Are like rocks. Those things can actually hurt you (and now I feel like we've had this conversation before! Weird).

Falling trees are awful, especially when they hit your house. Even in non-storm years we have at least 2-3 come down around here (usually not nearby) and when I hear them they always give me that bad feeling, but that's from having them fall on our actual place and destroy our roof, I guess.