http://www.oururbanodyssey.com/2010/archives/bad-year-for-new-york-city-trees/nova/1615 what's your story? Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:49:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.oururbanodyssey.com/2010/archives/bad-year-for-new-york-city-trees/nova/1615/comment-page-1#comment-596 JPLogan Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:45:18 +0000 http://www.oururbanodyssey.com/?p=1615#comment-596 The idea that trees and people don't mix has been becoming more and more obvious to me. I am writing these words to the tune of municipal workers putting a tree, that fell into my parking lot, through a wood chipper. No property damage but it is the second huge tree withing a year. Last summer, a large tree fell between two cars parked in my daughter's driveway. In my neighborhood, the same storm dropped a tree right in the middle of a house that now looks abandoned. After living in one of the Tree Towns USA I have grown fond of the symphony of chain saws and candlelight dining right after every storm but when will we realize that people, building, cars and tall trees don't get along. There is a reason my god created shrubs and bushes. The idea that trees and people don’t mix has been becoming more and more obvious to me. I am writing these words to the tune of municipal workers putting a tree, that fell into my parking lot, through a wood chipper. No property damage but it is the second huge tree withing a year. Last summer, a large tree fell between two cars parked in my daughter’s driveway. In my neighborhood, the same storm dropped a tree right in the middle of a house that now looks abandoned. After living in one of the Tree Towns USA I have grown fond of the symphony of chain saws and candlelight dining right after every storm but when will we realize that people, building, cars and tall trees don’t get along. There is a reason my god created shrubs and bushes.

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