Why is strong wind able to sway and knock down a tree, but a human who weighs far less could easily wander through the same wind?

Question

Why is strong wind able to sway and knock down a tree, but a human who weighs far less could easily wander through the same wind?

In: Physics

Answer 1

People go inside when the wind goes over 60mph.

Trees don’t.

When people go outside in actual storm force winds, they will certainly not wander around. They will get knocked down and driven into trees, cars and buildings which have no problem standing up to the same winds.

The answer is that you are looking at trees that have been outside during the part of the storm you went inside for.

Storms knock over houses, and tip over cars. Of course they will batter people silly enough to go out in them.