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27. Got to figure out the other replacement tree.

Sat Apr 22, 2017, 06:27 PM

Apr 2017

We had 15 40-50 foot oaks on or lot. But last year one got toppled by a tornado. The other had a large hole just below the crown of the tree and was seeping all the way down to almost grade level. So that one wasn't going to last much longer. The tree that toppled had more then 15 minutes of fame. The tornado just skipped along touching down and going back up and took out a line of trees in our neighborhood. Had all the local news stations coming out. But our tree was blocking one of the main roads to the subdivision. So all of the camera crews set up by our house and stood by the tree doing their newscasts.

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