Tallinn's Toppled Tree to Be Trimmed (3)

Published: 28.11.2011 13:30

Storm 2, tree 0: The capital's Christmas tree brought down by high winds on Friday and Sunday.
( Photo: Delfi/Ilmar Saabas )

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After twice toppling down over the weekend, Tallinn's Christmas tree will be going back up - albeit in a shorter form - on Tuesday morning, municipal officials have said.

High winds from the storm that lashed the Baltic coast on Sunday again brought down the tree, which stands at the center of the capital's busy Christmas market. Nobody was hurt in that incident either, and in both cases the falling tree also missed the nearby wooden sales huts.

Ivo Parbus of the Central Tallinn District Administration told uudised.err.ee that the tree would be remounted on the square with additional measures taken to ensure its stability. These include cutting an additional four meters from its base.

The tree, which originally stood at 24 meters, will now have the much more modest height of 17 meters.

The same storm, named Berit, also knocked over the municipal Christmas tree in the nearby town of Keila, in addition to causing power outages throughout the country.

 

Steve Roman

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  • Mart Mang

    28.11.2011 18:01

    This "new" math is puzzling. The tree was 24 meters tall. They cut off 4 meters, and now the tree is 17 meters tall. Please explain this to me without getting too technical, I'm an old geezer...

  • math whiz - not

    29.11.2011 10:52

    I assume the tree was 24 meters high when it was growing from the forest. Says "originally". Why, what's the contradiction, Mart?

  • Mart Mang

    02.12.2011 16:35

    The old math on the west side of the pond says 24m minus 4m equals 20m. The tree is now 17m. I was just wondering how the ingenious Estonians did that is all...