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Trees, wind and gravity not a good mix on one Forest Hills street

The morning squall line brought trees down across the region, including this one photographed by Casey on Tower Street in Forest Hills - where another large tree snapped and plunged to the ground in July.

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Is the tree a Linden? I don't see much evidence of drought damage in the leaf canopy, but there is like *no* root ball there - it looks like it almost splintered off at the base.

I know that the city recommends people regularly water young street trees - does it make sense to do the same for older established trees during a prolonged drought?

(btw, did the city leave in place the stump of the one that snapped in July? In reading the WP on linden just now it says they propagate poorly from seed and mostly spread by self-coppicing.)

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on my condo property years ago. We didn't grind the stump and there is healthy growth coming up from the stump now, quite thick. Our tree advisor said to let them grow and then thin it all out and we may get another great Linden.

Trees next to sidewalks don't usually get the water they should. Always good to place a slow drip hose around any trees, new and old, during a drought.

Sad to see a beautiful tree fall to the winds.

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Alan Dunham of the National Weather Service described this both before and after the Concord tornado: the tree is weakened by the drought and then the soil can't hold it.

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