City of Vicksburg street department employee Bennie Cosby removes a tree from a ditch on Porters Chapel Road Thursday. Carl Harris, the concrete foreman for the city, said, the tree fell during a storm on Dec. 27. Harris and other street department employees cut the downed tree into sections and removed it from blocking traffic a couple of weeks ago but did not have time to fully remove the tree until Thursday. (Meredith Spencer*The Vicksburg Post)