When young fast-growing trees get hit by a fast hard freeze they can keel over like that. We had one fall when we had young alders here and there along stretches of our roads topple. It was sad but they grew back with no trouble. What really hurt was that the university had bought up quite a few acres on either side along the road near my folk's place and they were testing out some strains of fast-growing trees for their use in producing goods like paper. The trees had been growing about 3 years when that freeze took out ~2/3 of the trees. As the university didn't come to harvest them or clean up the area for at least a year after that I assume that the trees were wasted.
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