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460 Year Old Wye Tree Falls over in Maryland
Maryland TV news
| 6/6/02
| the Channel 9 news lady
Posted on 06/06/2002 8:40:15 PM PDT by RFP
Just reported on Maryland nightly news: The "Wye tree", a 460 year old white oak in Wye Mills, MD, has fallen down across a highway. It is not certain if it was struck by lightening or the victim if high winds (stormy here today). Previously, some of it's branches were cut and made into gavels. The "Liberty tree" (somewhere else in Maryland) cracked and was cut down recently and made into guitars.
I'm typing all this from memory, so pardon any errors. If anyone has a URL or official report, please do post it.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: environment; gavels; guitars; oak; trees
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I've got to think that if it's stood this long, it probably fell over due to some form of disease, rot, or insect infestation. The news showed a reporter standing inside the tree's crater-like stump. The trunk appeared to be at least ten feet in diameter! No big bad wind was going to affect that and it would have had to have been a Hell of a bolt.
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posted on
06/06/2002 8:40:16 PM PDT
by
RFP
To: RFP
i blame myself
To: RFP
Was anyone there to hear it?
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posted on
06/06/2002 8:42:29 PM PDT
by
Fabozz
To: InvisibleChurch
Buck up. We all blame you. :-)
What did President Bush know and when did he know it?
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posted on
06/06/2002 8:43:44 PM PDT
by
D-fendr
To: RFP
I wonder when little tommy dashole is going to start a senate investigation, what did Bush know...and when did he know it.
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posted on
06/06/2002 8:43:51 PM PDT
by
Valin
To: RFP
A cover up no less. This all happened while Bush was giving his speech to the nation. Read between the lines...it is his fault. He was just diverting attention.
To: Hail Caesar; trueblackman
Oh yeah, they reported that it was the biggest oak tree in the nation. Sad. Oh well, it's nature's way I suppose. Now let's see, what can we make out of this oak? Paddles for Maryland Republicans to whack their DemocRATS and RINOs with?
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posted on
06/06/2002 8:44:45 PM PDT
by
RFP
To: RFP
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posted on
06/06/2002 8:45:00 PM PDT
by
Jean S
To: Fabozz
Why wasn't there an environmentalist there to catch it?
To: InvisibleChurch
What did you know and when did you know it??
To: RFP
A tree grows in Brooklyn
To: RFP
Global Warming! Global Warming did it!
To: InvisibleChurch
It must be your SUV driving that induced the global warming that caused the storm that killed the tree!
Or was it that butterfly in Brazil? It is so hard to keep the excuses straight!
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posted on
06/06/2002 8:47:17 PM PDT
by
DrDavid
To: goldenstategirl
Too bad there wasn't one in it!
To: My Favorite Headache
Don't tell Alan Keyes. He'll believe you.
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posted on
06/06/2002 8:47:45 PM PDT
by
Amelia
To: Mercuria; Askel5
I told you it was a bad storm!
To: RFP
In Waterloo NY there is a tree called the Scythe tree. A man enlisting in the army in the civil war hung his scythe on the tree, telling his family to leave it there until he returned. Of course, he never did. The scythe, what's left of it, is still there. I am astonished that the tree would live that long, but apparently it has.
To: RFP
The "Liberty tree" (somewhere else in Maryland) cracked and was cut down recently and made into guitars. Nothing against guitars, but shouldn't they have used that tree for gun stocks?
;-)
To: RFP
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