The Obama legacy expands...
As Ancient Sequoa Tree Dies!
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Fans mourn death of California's famous 'drive-thru' sequoia
AMANDA LEE MYERS and RICH PEDRONCELLI
Associated PressJanuary 9, 2017
ARNOLD, Calif. (AP) — Joyce Brown was 12 when her parents first took her to visit the "drive-thru tree," a giant sequoia in California famous for a car-sized hole carved into the base of its trunk.
Brown thought she had entered a land of giants as she walked underneath and around the ancient 100-foot-tall tree, which was toppled by a massive storm on Sunday.
"In the blink of an eye, it's gone," he said. "There's this giant tree everyone remembers, and it's going to be laying there in plain sight.
The dead giant."
The drive-thru tree had a diameter of 22 feet and was about 2,000 years old, said Tony Tealdi, a supervising ranger at California State Parks.
"It was majestic," he said.
"Now it's basically a pile of rubble."
AMANDA LEE MYERS and RICH PEDRONCELLI
Associated PressJanuary 9, 2017
ARNOLD, Calif. (AP) — Joyce Brown was 12 when her parents first took her to visit the "drive-thru tree," a giant sequoia in California famous for a car-sized hole carved into the base of its trunk.
Brown thought she had entered a land of giants as she walked underneath and around the ancient 100-foot-tall tree, which was toppled by a massive storm on Sunday.
"In the blink of an eye, it's gone," he said. "There's this giant tree everyone remembers, and it's going to be laying there in plain sight.
The dead giant."
The drive-thru tree had a diameter of 22 feet and was about 2,000 years old, said Tony Tealdi, a supervising ranger at California State Parks.
"It was majestic," he said.
"Now it's basically a pile of rubble."
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