Next steps after ice storm recovery include increasing focus on trees
Downtown Memphis can been seen as ice covers the canopy of large oak trees in Midtown Feb. 4, 2022. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Speaking Thursday, Feb. 17, at the Frayser Exchange Club, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said the city’s chronic power outages during frequent storms is mostly about the trees that dominate the city’s landscape. Strickland says any solution to the continuing outages will be expensive.
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