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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4263901" data-attributes="member: 26737">I rather like cottonwoods. Sorry about the allergies, though—I can sympathize, as those damned red cedars get me. I have two huge cottonwoods next to the gate at my place. The bigger one has to be near six feet in diameter, but I don’t know how it keeps going. It has been hit by lightning multiple times, to the point that its bark is no longer securely attached for about the first six or eight feet. During storms it has dropped branches bigger than some trees, but it just keeps on ticking. When I had the garden tilled, you could almost see the dirt drying out after a rain as that giant cottonwood was sucking the water out of the dirt.</blockquote>