Falling Down...
The voicemail went something like this:
“Dude, a big tree just went boom at the end of your street.”
The tree is located at Division and J Street next to the First Congregational Church. So… Division Street has been closed between I and J Street since 5:00. The last time we checked, it looked nearly clear. Big tree go boom.
Filed under: From-the-Editor
6 comments
M morgan May 11, 2008
We’ve had a few large old trees on our street fall down go boom too. Considering they were probably planted 100 years ago, it might be time for the city (or residents) to plant some new ones.
P Phil May 11, 2008
Multicare probably wishes it would have aimed at First Congregational.
B broadweezy May 12, 2008
“The tree is located at Division and J Street next to the First Congregational Church…”
And the hand of Historic Salvation strucketh.
J jennifer May 12, 2008
It took out the light pole next to it. Cracked the concrete right in half.
1 1420 May 12, 2008
Well, Morgan, the City does have a free street tree program. Granted, they aren’t very good about advertising it (yet), it does exist. Bummer there isn’t some cool goal (that I know of) of planting 1 million trees in the next decade or something like that, but citizen demand for a more comprehensive Urban Forestry division might be a good place to start! Tacoma is over three times the size of Olympia, and until last year, Olympia had 2 full time and one part time Urban Foresters-where are we? One part-time…Start writing your council members asking for a better and more comprehensive Urban Forestry program!
C crenshaw sepulveda May 13, 2008
Here are these people going on again about how great Olympia is. They’ve got these fancy urban foresters and they’ve got two co-op food stores (ready to open another one downtown). They’ve got a tavern where you can do your laundry and a grocery store downtown on the waterfront. You people love Olympia so much maybe you should marry Her.