
{"id":27105,"date":"2012-07-26T09:52:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T13:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=27105"},"modified":"2012-07-26T09:52:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T13:52:59","slug":"landmark-tree-struck-monitored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/07\/26\/landmark-tree-struck-monitored\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmark tree struck, monitored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27106\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/07\/26\/landmark-tree-struck-monitored\/_dsc7966\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27106\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC7966.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"_DSC7966\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC7966.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC7966-113x75.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC7966-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC7966-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC7966-360x239.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowers adorn the willow oak on the east end of the Weaver Street lawn. The tree, which is thought to be about 80 years old, was struck by lightning last Thursday evening. Photo by Duncan Hoge<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nA familiar piece of the Carrboro skyline was endangered last Thursday when lightning struck a large willow oak on the Weaver Street lawn. <\/p>\n<p>The willow oak was likely planted in the 1930s, according to Ken Moore, Citizen Flora columnist and former assistant director of the N.C. Botanical Garden. The large tree, which sits at the eastern edge of the lawn, is a source of shade for lawn sitters and dancers, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not uncommon to see more than one person resting up against it. <\/p>\n<p>Carr Mill Mall manager Nathan Milian said Bartlett Tree Service workers were on the scene the next day to treat the tree\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wound with chemicals to prevent insects and disease from entering the tree. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It stripped bark off of one side in a couple of deep places,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Milian said of the strike. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Beyond that, we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what other damage there is.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>He said Bartlett would continue to monitor the tree on a weekly basis. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really nothing we can do except wait and see now,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Milian said, adding that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cautiously optimistic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d about the tree\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s survival. <\/p>\n<p>During the Thursday-evening storm, lightning struck several places in the area, causing outages in Weaver Street Market and Carr Mill Mall. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thankfully, no one was injured,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Milian said. <\/p>\n<p>Chip Hildreth, an arborist with Arbor Carolina, said he thinks the tree has a good chance of surviving the strike. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was a pretty good lightning strike, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a killer lightning strike,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153As long as the tree doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t succumb to something secondary, I think the chances are good.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>With some lightning strikes, an entire side of the tree could be blown off and the top of the tree could buckle, Hildreth said, but that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happen in the case of the Weaver Street willow oak. At this point, monitoring the tree will help its chances of survival. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to happen is for an aggressive fungus to get into it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning, Weaver Street lawn regular Bruce Thomas placed flowers in the wound of the tree and asked others to direct their thoughts toward the willow oak. <\/p>\n<p>Thomas was at Weaver Street Market when the strike occurred, which he watched from beneath the breezeway shelter. The strike looked like an explosion, he said. <\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting provided by Duncan Hoge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A familiar piece of the Carrboro skyline was endangered last Thursday when lightning struck a large willow oak on the Weaver Street lawn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27110,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27105\/revisions\/27110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}