User blog comment:SilentShadow87/What Makes an EF5 an EF5?/@comment-27987536-20170309201603

If large trees such as mesquite trees are completely debarked and denuded, even the smallest branches are stripped of their bark, or low lying shrubs and trees are pulled completely out of the ground and/or stripped of all their bark. This may be another sign of EF5 intensity.