It was expected to be severe. It was.
Work crews finished pruning the Toomer’s Oaks late Wednesday morning as a safety precaution against dead branches and even limbs falling on pedestrians. The results, as Auburn alum Andrew Salser put in on Twitter, look “like something out of Sleepy Hollow.”
Here’s a video showing all sides of both oaks:
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Auburn fans, we have a tree called the century tree in college station. Not that it helps, but I’m sorry this happened to you all. Traditions have symbols have one of them is your tree. I hope it can be saved.
Can we throw that stupid updike bammer in jail already?!