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Surviving Winter's Blast

Surviving Winter's Blast---

The Survivor Tree, as it was named following the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, survived another blast---this time a winter storm that toppled more than 500,000 trees in the Oklahoma City area.

The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum was iced over and several trees were destroyed, but thanks to the work and cooperation of Mark Bays, Urban Forestry Coordinator with Oklahoma's Department of Food, Forestry and Agriculture and Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum employees, ice was knocked off the tree beginning at 3:45 a.m. on Monday and was removed constantly throughout the past two days.

The Memorial has a written procedure in its Critical Incident Management Plan for caring for the tree and that plan was implemented during the ice storm that took out power and trees to most of the Oklahoma City metro area.

The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum remains open.

For more information on the Survivor Tree, click here.

View Survivor Tree ice storm update podcast - click here.

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