The power of nature

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This blasted tree trunk is easily visible to pedestrians walking over the O-Train track on Albert Street, immediately west of Tom Brown Arena. The damage occurred around the fourth week of July. The wind — or was it lightning? — only damaged one tree, leaving its neighbours intact.

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Yes, that’s the infamously unused train track to Gatineau showing through the branches.