40' "anaconda'' tree root pulled from Osoyoos storm drain

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When a storm drain backed up in Osoyoos, B.C., over the weekend, a 40-foot tree root was the last thing crews expected to find.

"We just wrestled that anaconda out of there, two hours, one inch at a time" said Grant McCulloch, property manager of Village on the Lake, a condominium complex on Lakeshore Drive.

McCulloch said the area backed up with water after a recent heavy rainfall and he thought the drain might have been clogged with sand or a dead animal.

When crews realized it was a willow tree root, he says everyone was shocked at the size.

"We didn't know if it was two feet or five feet, but we certainly didn't think it was forty feet," said McCulloch.

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