Re: Oh Tannendead

Thanks for the site Barb. I'm on dial-up and it didn't take long to go
through the pics. It's quite the example of safety laws run amok. My
paper mentioned that the task of getting a new tree was complicated by
the additional requirement that a fire marshall had to be present when
they cut the tree down, to ensure "freshness". ?? Did they think sparks
from the chain saw would set it on fire? Didn't the people writing the
law realize that, even if the freshness at cutting time was ensured by
the presence of a marshall, following the cutting with a thorough drying
with commercial fans and spraying it with fire retardent, would sort of
un-fresh it?


Kitty



-- "Barbara Tandy" <sundrops@earthlink.net> wrote:
OK guys, if you go to http://www.projo.com/, the Providence newspaper, they 
have the story on the front page with a slide show of the unfortunate tree 
denuded --  I have only a dial-up connection so did not wait around for the 
whole thing but it's there --
--Barb, Grass Valley CA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <kmrsy@netzero.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 7:18 AM
Subject: [CHAT] Oh Tannendead


>A longer version of this AP article was in my morning paper. I
> unsuccessfully searched the net for a reprint that included the photo.
>
>
> It's a Charlie Brown Christmas for Rhode Island's official Christmas
> tree. The 18-foot Colorado blue spruce lost its needles and died after
> Statehouse workers in Providence dried it with commercial fans and
> sprayed it with a fire-retardant chemical.
>
>
> Duh!
>
> Kitty
>
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