I was downtown the other day and wanted to see what progress if any they have made with the rehab. It looks like they have been working on the bridge for a little while.
It looks like this is a doomed bridge as of today. Here is a link to the Boone New Republican. A county engineer has stated it will be brought down in the next 12 months due to safety concerns.
http://newsrepublican.com/news/local/ice-jams-causing-damage...
As of the 24th of Jan the tree has been removed. It looked like it was pretty recently cut out and pulled on the bank.
Online maps are still showing both halves of the bridge sitting in fields. And the street view is of the east side. The West Side is sitting back from the road along the tree line and the East side is in the middle of the field. When we drove by the other day I did not notice the east bridge but we were not looking for it either. The weeds in the fields are quite tall and it could have been missed.