New Orleans' Oak Trees Devastated (NPR Report)

NPR ^ | Sept 8, 2005 | NPR

[plain talk]

Part of New Orleans's southern charm comes from its green canopy of live oak trees. Many of those trees have been standing in water for more than a week, depriving their roots of oxygen.

(this is lead-in. Audio .wav file of the report at NPR site)

[Conspiracy Guy]

Too short for utility poles. They will make nice furniture though.

[Conspiracy Guy]

He ordered the troops into New Orleans to shoot the live oaks.

[clee1]

Ahhh.

Then, according to the leftists and race pimps, Bush ought to love 'em. Dey bees homies.

[IamConservative]

I've seen them survive in ponds for 2 years before succumbing to water.

Of course this water is slightly more toxic. A good dose of the wrong toxin could certainly speed up the process.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Couldn't help myself.

In other news, Celine Dione is quoted as saying "These trees aren't wet. Some of these trees are so dry that they have never touched water before. Can't we let them touch the water just once!"

[Conspiracy Guy]

Dick Cheney is awarding the tree removal project to Haliburton.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Actually the sewer/bacteria won't harm the trees over a short period of exposure. Oil of gas or other chemicals could be another story. Live oaks are tough trees.

[cripplecreek]

It's amazing that a LOWLAND COASTAL species can't survive having it's roots submerged for a few weeks.

[Dawgreg]

GW wants all oak trees to die. They probably vote Democrat.*~*.

[laz]

Thousands of people dead... and they're worried about oak trees.

Yep, liberals care. They *really* do.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Not only is it amazing. It is incorrect ; )

[Conspiracy Guy]

The live oak gangs would be causing more trouble but they move so slowly

[benjaminjjones]

a club with over 5000 members, all but one are trees...the bylaws of the society permit one human member

If a club with one human member drops dead in the woods, do the trees hear the sound?

the president of the live oak society...is a tree

Al Gore?

I was going to say that these people are just unbelievable, but I remembered that we're talking about moonbats.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Two words: Bush's Fault!

[laz]

Hey, now we know why OwlGore was in the area!

[Rocket1968]

I say we send in the Oak Ridge Boys to straighten out this problem.

[Conspiracy Guy]

; )

[Rakkasan1]

I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing

I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,
Without any companion it stood there uttering joyous leaves of dark green,
And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself,
But I wondered how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there
without its friend near, for I knew I could not,
And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it,
and twined around it a little moss,
And brought it away, and I have placed it in sight in my room,
It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
(For I believe lately I think of little else than of them,)
Yet it remains to me a curious token, it makes me think of manly love;
For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana
solitary in a wide flat space,
Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend or lover near,
I know very well I could not.

-- Walt Whitman