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Aug 19, 2009 10:43 pm US/Central

Good To Know: Mourning The Death Of A Tree

Reporting
Don Shelby
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) ― Tornadoes, funnel clouds and high winds descended on Minneapolis and surrounding areas early this afternoon. Fortunately, nobody was killed.Don, who watched the last Minneapolis tornado from his porch in 1981, says this time we mourn the trees lost.

I sat on my front porch in a rented house on Lake Harriet 27 years ago with my three daughters, all under 4-years-old.

The wind began making noises I'd never heard before.

We had seven old trees in the front yard. The tornado grabbed their canopies and bent them until they could bend no more. They came up by the roots.

Some of the trees that were lost today were three feet in diameter at the base. Older than the neighborhood, older than the city, older than the state.

Can you mourn the death of a tree? I can. I know the people along Portland Avenue will.

When my 4-year-old looked up and saw all those downed trees in the yard that, she looked at me and asked, "Daddy, is nature over?" I said "No." But it sure seemed like it to me.

In South Minneapolis, I would bet they are thinking the same thing tonight.

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