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LOVELAND — Two of the oldest living residents of Loveland’s Lakeside Cemetery — giant blue spruce trees — were blown over Saturday afternoon, landing among some of the burial grounds’ oldest graves.
The trees, estimated to be 100 years old, snapped off in the brief windstorm that blew through Loveland between 1:30 and 2:30 p.m.
“This is just what happens when you have an aging tree population,” said Rob MacDonald, forestry specialist with the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, as he began cutting branches from the trees Monday.
“It looks like one blew over and hit the other one,” he said. MacDonald estimated the trees were 75 to 80 feet tall.
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