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Snap: Hot pecan on First

by Hawes Spencer
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published 5:44pm Tuesday Jul 6, 2010
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news-pecantreefelledThe pecan towered over a downtown backyard.
PHOTO BY WICK HUNT

The recent three-minute storm claimed another member of the plant family Tuesday, July 6, as workers with Van Yahres Tree Service toiled in record-breaking heat (the temperature hit 103˚F at McCormick Observatory) to bring down a damaged pecan tree— what may have been the area’s biggest— in a North First Street yard.

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