TheDailyWoo - 797 (9/6/14) The Senator Cypress Methuselah

0:04 welcome everyone Adam the woo here happy

0:04 Saturday to you hope you guys are having

0:05 a great weekend coming to you from

0:07 Longwood Florida there's rain on the

0:10 ground Dew in the air and the sun has

0:13 protruded up and has

0:15 risen here on this wonderful Saturday

0:19 the first completed Day official if you

0:22 will day of the weekend it's my second

0:25 channel daily blog channel it's the

0:27 daily woo and check out this

0:31 Boardwalk that actually has an open gate

0:34 inviting us in but be careful because

0:37 the boardwalk can be very Slippery When

0:41 Wet and I just did mention that it

0:44 rained it's been raining here a lot in

0:45 Florida in fact torrential downpours if

0:49 you will Florida summerstyle have

0:52 actually festooned the landscape so we

0:55 need to be careful walking on this

0:57 Boardwalk which has been provided by

1:00 the Florida forest service and the signs

1:04 along the boardwalk and the educational

1:07 playground stumps were made possible by

1:10 the urban and Community forestry Grant

1:13 funds receiving of the United States

1:15 Department Of Agricultural Forest

1:17 Services etc etc etc so what exactly is

1:23 this Boardwalk for this Boardwalk was

1:25 created years ago in celebration of one

1:28 of the oldest cypress trees and tallest

1:32 cypress trees in existence if you look

1:35 at old postcards they actually used to

1:37 call the cypress tree the Cypress look

1:40 at this look at this a mosquito that is

1:43 a mosquito gnawing on my flesh hopefully

1:47 that does not pulse up in front of us

1:50 while we're filming the Vlog the Cyprus

1:52 Methuselah in the Bible Methuselah was

1:55 the oldest man in existence so they

1:57 named the cypress tree which was the

1:59 oldest and tallest cypress tree in

2:02 existence here in Central Florida after

2:05 that the Cypress Methuselah and this

2:08 Boardwalk has markers based on how tall

2:11 the tree was starting with 1 inch and it

2:16 festoons that way straight up hundreds

2:19 of feet towards the cypress tree the

2:23 Cypress Methuselah also known and

2:25 renamed the senator there's some little

2:28 placards here

2:31 the height of the senator is portrayed

2:33 on the boardwalk ahead these Heights are

2:36 approximate of course based on growth

2:39 rates of a cypress trees an optimal

2:42 habitat that lady is screaming and

2:44 yelling at something I'm not really sure

2:46 what those two women over there the

2:47 bikers maybe they're getting in an

2:49 argument about what is the tallest

2:51 cypress tree the cypress tree definitely

2:54 creates a lot of controversy with women

2:57 bike riders so anyway back to the

2:59 placards year one approximately

3:02 1500

3:04 BC we're not in BC we have gone into the

3:08 other region the non-bc regions 1500 BC

3:12 that was a long time ago that was

3:15 3500 years more than 3500 years ago the

3:20 senator started started to sprout that's

3:24 obviously not a picture from 1500 BC

3:28 that's just an example of what the

3:29 Senator the tallest cypress tree would

3:32 have looked like back in 1500 BC which

3:36 stands for before Christ 1500 BC that

3:40 was a long time ago

3:41 35 plus 100 years ago the tree started

3:47 to festo

3:49 itself itself from the ground at the end

3:54 of the 60 ft we've walked 60 fet now at

3:58 50 year old at 50 I can't I'm having

4:00 trouble reading I have not had any

4:01 caffeine yet at 50 years old the senator

4:04 is 60 ft tall because young cypress

4:07 trees have to compete with other cypress

4:10 trees man they are yelling and

4:12 gallivanting and carrying on back there

4:15 all right we're going to move quickly

4:16 and get away from their cackling and

4:18 they're yakking and they're yelling and

4:19 they're laughing and yelling and

4:20 screaming 100 ft we have made it 100 ft

4:25 at 80 years old the senator is 100 ft

4:28 tall in a a good habitat cypress trees

4:31 can grow rapidly and reach Heights of

4:33 over a 100 ft that's

4:36 massive after this the upward grow slows

4:39 and the trunk slowly gets

4:43 thicker so we have a thick trunk on the

4:46 cypress trees at 200 years old the

4:49 senator has reached

4:51 120 ft in height these are only a few

4:56 other cypress trees close to the size in

4:58 the spring ham

5:00 preserve one such tree is the Lady

5:03 Liberty which you will also see ahead so

5:08 we're going to look at two massive

5:10 cypress trees over 100 ft tall look at

5:14 this 160

5:17 ft and what is that 160 ft signific

5:22 significant what does that mean

5:24 significant what is the signific what's

5:27 the significance of 16 F feet well that

5:31 was the height at 3500 years old the

5:36 senator had reached its full height of

5:40 160 ft in 1925 a hurricane knocked off

5:44 the top leaving the tree at a whopping

5:49 126 ft tall so if that hurricane

5:52 wouldn't have come through it would have

5:53 been 160 ft in the air but now 126 ft is

5:59 all that was left of the senator and the

6:03 senator is Straight Ahead that

6:11 one are you excited to see the

6:11 senator around all these other little

6:13 small cypress trees when I say small

6:16 they're all pretty

6:18 massive however the senator Towers over

6:20 them like a Cypress

6:23 methusa just like the old postcard

6:26 said the question is are you excited

6:30 to see this historical landmark here in

6:33 Central Florida that created this

6:36 walkway specifically for

6:40 this

6:42 well I hate to be the bearer of bad

6:45 news but the tree was actually fell

6:48 victim to an arsonist a couple years ago

6:52 someone came out here with bad

6:54 intentions and set fire to the tree from

6:57 the innards up and the tree is actually

7:01 burned down cypress

7:05 Methuselah is gone it is no more except

7:08 some relics which actually exist right

7:12 there the stump is still here so if

7:15 you're in this area and you want to see

7:17 what is left or I could just show you

7:20 right now it's very

7:21 sad here it is

7:40 this placard has been here for Years big

7:40 tree the Cypress Methuselah the

7:43 senator and that's all that's left you

7:46 can see the charred

7:48 remains of what originally was 160t tall

7:53 cypress

7:54 tree look at that you can actually see

7:58 the inner workings of the tree the shell

8:01 the bark around the edges I guess really

8:03 a cyer doesn't have

8:05 bark but the outer nether regions of the

8:10 tree look at that imagine how tall that

8:12 would have

8:13 been and how thick enlarg the girth of

8:17 that tree and look at that you can

8:19 actually see where the fire was inside

8:22 the tree someone with very bad

8:25 intentions walked down this which was

8:28 created

8:29 specifically for this walk down here and

8:32 set fire to the

8:35 tree definitely a huge huge bummer I've

8:39 been wanting to check this out for years

8:41 but I'm always busy doing other things I

8:44 neglected to come out here and see the

8:46 tree when it existed I waited too long

8:50 and now I am here after the fact the

8:53 tree is nothing more than a charred

8:55 burned shell a brief history right here

8:59 here of the senator a state champion

9:02 bald citrus tree that's what the tree

9:04 used to look like right

9:07 there the 1600s simol and other Native

9:11 Americans use the senator as a landmark

9:14 and look at this the senator becomes an

9:17 unofficial tourist attraction visitors

9:19 back in the day used to have to jump log

9:22 to log through the swamps to avoid the

9:25 wetlands to get their picture in front

9:28 of the senator that was before they

9:29 built this and look at this picture

9:37 here those two guys are standing side to

9:37 side arm to arm length that's the girth

9:41 of the senator look at the

9:43 girth of how big that Senator was that's

9:46 an old photo what year do you think that

9:48 photo was based on the outfits they're

9:51 wearing there says late 1800s okay I

9:55 just answered my own question it was the

9:56 late 1800s did they take photos in the

9:58 late 1800 like that maybe they did who

10:00 knows what who am I to argue with this

10:03 in

10:05 1925 lightning struck it in a

10:08 hurricane it went from 165 ft to 126 ft

10:12 that's the hurricane I told you back

10:13 back there then the Longwood fire

10:16 department they installed lightning rods

10:18 in the top of it so there would be no

10:21 more damage but obviously man-made

10:24 damage happened and now the tree looks

10:27 like this in 1927

10:30 the state senator em Mo over Street

10:32 donated the tree and surrounding land to

10:35 the simal county fora Park and then in

10:37 1929 look at this President Calvin

10:41 kulage and his wife they visited the

10:44 senator and they dedicated this place as

10:48 a new park the President Calvin kulage

10:52 of the United States of America was

10:54 standing right there Calvin kulage

10:59 was right there so that's pretty awesome

11:01 and then of course the saddest moment

11:05 2012 the senator was burned by an arson

11:09 on January

11:11 16th

11:14 2012 so that's all that's left but that

11:17 is not that's all that's left there are

11:20 these remnants here but there is

11:22 something that continues on the sister

11:25 tree they call it and that is located

11:27 look at this sh

11:36 Lady

11:36 Liberty right next

11:38 to the other sister if that's the sister

11:41 would that have been the brother

11:44 brother

11:46 sister brother is burned sister Still

11:51 Remains The Lady

12:00 Liberty this one's only 89 ft tall 89

12:00 feet but look at how awesome that

12:03 is so just imagine in its

12:06 Heyday this tree is 89 ft that one would

12:10 have been twice at 160 ft almost twice

12:13 the size of Lady

12:20 Liberty so very very cool this was named

12:21 Lady Liberty but I believe by a school

12:24 named by students from the Geneva

12:26 Elementary School in 2005 l Liberty

12:30 stands tall as a symbol of our

12:33 patriotism that is

12:49 awesome so very cool it's actually very

12:50 Serene and nice and quiet and peaceful

12:52 out here you can actually hear way over

12:55 in the distance someone with an intercom

12:57 I'm not sure if it's a drive-thru or

12:59 school announcement you can hear some

13:01 faint noises over there and of course

13:02 the women

13:03 earlier they were talking and laughing

13:05 and having a good time or maybe arguing

13:07 I couldn't really tell and that was a

13:09 little bit rambunctious but other than

13:11 that we've got some birds out here we

13:14 now have the sun protruding through the

13:16 limbs of these

13:18 trees the nice coolness Christmas very

13:22 humid here in Florida but right now it's

13:23 pretty early and it's actually pretty

13:25 nice and this is pretty nice this

13:27 Boardwalk is cool they actually should

13:29 keep it open you can come and see Lady

13:32 Liberty over there but while you're

13:33 checking out that tree you can look at a

13:36 piece of History here a piece of massive

13:38 awesome Florida and US history that

13:40 Still Remains little remnants right here

13:44 of the Cyprus

13:47 methusa the senator have a great day

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14:07 one I did goodbye and goodbye to you

14:11 Cyprus

14:13 methusa that's such a great word to say

14:16 methusa this actually is a huge

14:20 bummer ah but what are you going to do

14:23 arsonist who what's that noise what's

14:26 that noise all right see you guys later

14:29 love you guys bye

TheDailyWoo - 797 (9/6/14) The Senator Cypress Methuselah

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