This East Side tree does its own watering(Tree gushing water, also Heals)

My San Antonio ^ | 10 Aug 2006 | Vincent T. Davis

[Marius3188]

Link Has photos.

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks for posting this, saw that a little while ago, a true oddity of nature..

[GeronL]

lol.

The treee roots have reached the acquifer. Probably.

[jiggyboy]

Hope it doesn't turn out to be a busted sewer line.

[ndt]

"Hope it doesn't turn out to be a busted sewer line."

LOL my thought exactly. I'd wait for the lab tests before tasting it.

[Chewbacca]

The roots either reached the aquifer or are tapping into a neighbors water pipe.

[DannyTN]

I saw this on TV tonight.

My guess is that the tree has grown around a water faucet and that eventually the water faucet has sprung a leak. The water is shooting out of the tree about a foot off the ground. The tree looks round, you can't tell there is anything embedded in it.

[Justice]

[dc-zoo]

Maybe just maybe this tree is able to pee.

[Cementjungle]

An artesian well of sorts.

[The Red Zone]

The tree ought to be X-rayed.

[A0ri]

Sounds like it is siphoning a water source!

:o)

[DannyTN]

"The tree ought to be X-rayed."

Not a bad idea. That would confirm or rule out my theory of an old embedded faucet.

[DannyTN]

Moses has been tapping things again.

[KarlInOhio]

Can we plant some of these in ANWR and tap them for oil?

[Diddle E. Squat]

Tree gushing water, also Heals

No it doesn't.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Someone named "Pope" has a weeping tree. Let me get back to you on that.

[humblegunner]

Lucille Pope drinks the water that is mysteriously leaking out of a tree in her backyard on the East Side.

I wouldn't drink it until I knew what the source was.

[Marius3188]

Just going on what the article says:

"Pope said her insurance agent dabbed drops on a spider bite that went away after the application on the welt. Pope said she's soaked her sore ankles in water from the tree and the pain has gone away."