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Icicle tree amazes drivers (From Surrey Comet)
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Frozen tree between Leatherhead and Chessington amazes motorists
10:40am Wednesday 13th March 2013 in News By Alice Foster, Reporter
The icicle tree. Picture: John McMurtrie
Drivers could be forgiven for thinking a new ice age had started yesterday when they spotted this tree encased in ice by the roadside.
But although the temperatures had plummeted to well below freezing a burst water main played a key part in the ice sculpture near the Star inn on Leatherhead Road, just north of Leatherhead.
A man, who saw it at midday, said a water main had burst and flooded the road.
Cars had driven through the water, spraying water onto the tree where it froze.
