40 foot 'anaconda' tree root pulled from Osoyoos, B.C., storm drain

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

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