A lone, goggled swimmer cut through the markedly empty waters of Austin’s Barton Springs Pool on Wednesday evening. “Excuse me, sir?” said a man in a suit and tie, standing next to a lifeguard chair and speaking into a megaphone. “We’re clearing the pool now for the tree.” The remaining swimmer, who continued his strokes undeterred, didn’t seem to be the only one newly clued in to the evening’s planned celebration of life for a beloved, albeit leaning, pecan tree called Flo. “It’s sick, so they’re going to cut it down,” a bikini-clad woman explained to an inquiring couple sharing a towel nearby. “It’s a couple thousand years old, so yeah, it’s pretty sad.” Yes, confusion (and misinformation) seemed to be making the poolside rounds. Flo wasn’t…
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