"Survivor Tree" damaged in Oklahoma City Ice Storm

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Shocking photos and videos detail horrific scene after two-day ice storm in Oklahoma, Kansas & Texas

October 28, 2020
By Sarah K. Burris



Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas have been dealing with a brutal attack from three different ice and sleet systems for two days. It has left communities looking like war zones with trees and debris littering the streets and as of Wednesday’s third wave, over 368,000 people are without power in Oklahoma.

Power lines were filmed popping, starting fires with blue flashes of electricity.

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Oklahoma took the brunt of the hit from the storm, plunging the state from a colorful Autumn into trees, flowers and multi-colored leaves completely encased in ice.

One of the most heartbreaking problems was the “Survivor Tree,” a tree that remained standing despite the horrific bombing on the Alpha P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. The tree has lasted through the bombing as well as 25 years of storms, tornadoes, hurricane-force winds, snowstorms and ice. But 2020’s ice storm took down a large branch on the north side of the tree, sending it tipping and possibly uprooting itself.

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