Nashville Electric Service cut Sandra Brown’s tree down. Tune in to her story tonight on News 2 at 5.
“I am a single older woman who has worked all my life to buy that little biddy land with the trees,” she says forcefully, her anger almost papable. “And I don’t appreciate you doing that like I had no rights and no feelings,” she says, the tears welling again, as she clenches her fist and talks to the camera as if it were the president of the Nashville Electric Service. “And it was an old tree to you all but it meant something to me.” She bangs her chest with her clenched fist. She holds it tight against her chest as if to keep her rapidly beating heart from exploding. “That tree enriched my life! It enriched my grand baby’s life! It is not right! You need to stop and think before you something like this. There are people on the other end of what you are doing.”
[Who said you could cut my tree? - ThatIsMessedUp - 12-03-07]
Learn more:
- Metro Tree Advisory Committee
- Track NES’s Tree Trimming Crew activity on this map
- list of “powerline approved” trees (.PDF) from the Nashville Tree Foundation
- NES: Power stays on thanks to tree trimming (June 2007)
