Famed giant sequoia with drive-thru tunnel topples in storm

AP ^ | 1/9/17 | AP

[jerod]

You forgot to add... ‘Boohoo!’

[jerod]

Global Warming does it again... And maybe that huge hole didn’t help out.

[Steve_Seattle]

Nowadays the environmentalists wouldn’t let the tunnel be carved in the first place, just like they wouldn’t allow Mt. Rushmore, Boulder Dam, Hoover Dam, The Grand Coulee Dam, or the Tennessee Valley Authority.

[5th MEB]

Yeah, but makes for good shakes and shingles.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I have a postcard showing this sequoia with the tunnel.

The postcard itself is over 100 years old.

[Twinkie]

OK. Here goes . . . . . . . .

ONE

[Romans Nine]

Yes you should.

They are incredible.

I recommend the Avenue of the Giants.

[Disambiguator]

Those people should be institutionalized. They are insane.

[Scrambler Bob]

I guess the toothpick market is going to be seeing a glut soon.
= = =

No, it needs to be buried, out of respect.

Can’t creamate it, due to carbon.

[fso301]

Now that the tree is on the ground, rather than doing anything useful with it, the park service will require that it just lay there for decades rotting.

[Iron Munro]

I loved her in “The Shining”...

Watch for her new release:

"The Obama Butt Shining"

[dfwgator]

I’ve walked under that tree. And yes, it’s sad, but my Lord, those people are insane.

[samtheman]

I want to mourn the loss...

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla&p=hippies+crying+over+dead+trees#id=1&vid=6d58437977d20913d1be27212ffa6f86&action=click

[dfwgator]

Nope, no sound, I know because I asked my wife is she heard anything.

If a man is alone in a forest, and his wife isn't around to hear him, is he still wrong?

[dfwgator]

The Maples did it.

[samtheman]

Posted the wrong link.

This is the mourning video I want.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G880gxjj9dI

(stupid Yahoo... puts its own stamp on every link you find through Yahoo search...)

[dfwgator]

I wonder if it made a sound when it fell?

"Oh, s--t!"

[1Old Pro]

That big hole through the middle of it probably didn’t help.

Man made no doubt :)

[USMCPOP]

“There was no immediate word on what caused the tee to fall, but the Chronicle reports that it probably had to do with ...”

GLOBAL GRAVITY

[PLMerite]

“The Rooskies hacked it!”

Like with an axe?