A Nashville man spent nearly six months trying to get a storm-damaged tree removed from his fence — but the agency responsible for the cleanup was juggling thousands of similar requests across Middle Tennessee.
Hugh Gracey’s backyard backs up to Interstate 440. Between the interstate and neighboring backyards is a wooded state right-of-way maintained by the Tennessee Department of Transportation. That’s where the tree on Gracey’s fence came from — knocked down during January’s ice storm.
“I’m just trying to get them to do what they’re supposed to do and get the tree off my fence,” Gracey said.
Gracey said he understood from the start that TDOT had far bigger problems to solve after the storm…