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Everyone ok? Storm damage pics. I hope so. Please share?

meyermike_1micha

12 years ago

Just thought I would share a few pictures of some damage to my favorite trees and let you all know that my potted plants did fine, but my outdoor ones will never be the same:-(

I hope you are all ok and I know some are still without electricity. I wish you well.

The driveway and parts of the yard.

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wantonamara Z8 CenTex
12 years ago
My sympathies go out to you, There is a reason why trees loose leaves. I know how you feel looking out at all that damage. I have had several AWFUL ice storms here in Texas, where we had had the woods sounding full of gunshots when the branches broke. We lost hundreds of trees. We are still cleaning up in our gorge.

One year we had an ice storm followed by three days of freezing rain and the ice held the water in and kept it from moving or evaporating. Trees with shallow roots and ice on their leaves and branches just fell over, roots and all.

Hope your chainsaw is tuned and ready.
greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a
12 years ago
I'm sorry to see the damage, Mike!
Still, Mother Nature knows best....but She sure doesn't prune with a delicate hand!
Good thing that you're back on your foot....just in time for all the clean-up work ;-0

Josh
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Hi everyone and thanks for looking at my creations!! I LOVE all the posts!! Luvs- If you only knew how many works I have in progress. Not to mention the ideas floating around in my head! I think I dream ideas!! Foxy- I'm just glad that I can share with you. Between gardenweb and photobucket, I wan't sure it was going to happen. Personal victory! lefd05- I have to water my tipsy pots twice a day. Should probably water three times since they are pretty close to the concrete dirveway. They don't hold a lot of dirt or water since they are plastic. I'm very much into thinking BIG! We should talk! snickysnacker- the watering can was a last minute thought. Can't take the credit for it...so it on a site posted on page like 60-something. My dad actually thought it was rigged up to be a watering system for the whole thing! Wish it could be! dinajean- I am inspiration?!? [Sniff, sniff] That is me wiping away a tear. I think tipsy pots would look soooooo good in the fall with warm colors and things like that. Also, plants wouldn't dry out as quickly. I bought the pig at Ceramo (a factory in my town that makes ceramic pots some with galze, some without, planters of all shpaes and sizes, etc. A couple times a year they open their factory up to the public to purchase.) Anywho, I bought bigpig there, brought her home, held her down and started to mosaic. Only frustrating thing was that Hobby Lobby kept running out of my pink glass! I love the bigpig, too!
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Hey Guys, Howdy Mike! I've been dealing with health issues the last couple months.. really bad. But I've also been a stay-at-home dad for the last two years (what a change, but I love every minute of it). So those two have been difficult for me to keep up with forums, except when my pain is severe and I'm up all night. My trees even suffered as I lost quite a few blueberries and a couple apples during the past two months. All my citrus have survived, many are doing excellent. But as I said in another thread my attempt at "acclimating" the container citrus to full sun, on the southern side of my house where it gets 130F, getting all day sunlight with extremely bright light, has not been successful -- but not a complete failure. All the container roots were protected by various means (otherwise they were definitely toast). Those under shade cloth still had growth spurts, just not as strong. All the mature in-ground trees on that side thrive just fine -- notwithstanding leaf and fruit burn around the canopy edges of course. Recently planted in-ground struggled and needed shade cloth as well as lots of mulch. The big test: my largest 18g container trees NOT under shade cloth (tho container itself shaded) in such extreme heat and light were clearly stressed. They were in a cyclical growth/death pattern: the excessive light was stimulating growth like CRAZY, everywhere. But the heat was clearly burning off so many leaves and branches, combined with visible branch die back, it became very difficult to nail down nutrients and even watering. The Dynamite 9 month CRF were used up fast -- tons of empty spherical capsules all over the surface after 3.5 months (June-Aug). Sigh.... I think you're right, it's impossible to do TRUE FULL sun (incl. all afternoon) in our hot dry summers for ANY container plant without shade cloth completely protecting foliage when it's 100+. That's in addition to my normal root protection (cache pot or full shade on container itself). My specific conditions on the south side exacerbate the problem. Humidity and shade should improve once more of my in-ground citrus and nectarines establish. You should see my "container media degradation" test case citrus tree. It's a Valencia I've had for 4 years in a half-barrel, hanging on to life in the original horrid media mix of MG soil + compost and fine sand. Every spring it flushes, but then loses leaves in the heat and drops it's fruit. It took a serious beating on the south side when not under shade cloth. It's all spindly now, very little interior foliage, and die-back everywhere. It's time to put it in the gritty mix and see how it grows. Supposedly we've had our last 100s now for the summer. This is the 2nd best time to plant trees in the ground or re-pot, but only if I do it quickly and pray winter doesn't come too quick. I'll try get some pics up soon... including my failures.
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OT_is everyone ok from the tornados?
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I e-mailed excessfroufrou & this morn she answered with the following: Thanks for remembering me. Our storms started Monday and a tornado that killed four passed about 10 miles from our house. Our round of tornados Monday and Tuesday were nothing compared to this last round in Al, TN, and GA. We are fairly used to them here, we are in a path that they seem to follow quite often. I feel so sad for the latest victims. Thanks for the prayers. Thank you, PM, for starting this post...so much loss of lives...it is so horrideous ... keep the good thoughts & prayers coming in the days ahead as so many good people will reach out to help in the destruction. Jeanne S. (thank God you know your GD is safe)
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emerald1951
12 years ago
Hey Mike....wow.....lots to clean up....
I know what that is like...I hope you have help...
I am glad everyone there is OK...and hope the others get their power back soon....take care....linda
paul_
12 years ago
I was surprised to hear about the freak snow storm -- it was the type of thing I would have expected here in Michigan instead. My sympathies on the damage the storm dealt out. I hope those without power get it restored soon!
puglvr1
12 years ago
Wow!! Sorry Mike! Thank goodness you guys are okay...that's the most important thing! Great to hear your potted plants are fine too...I'm sure this one really caught you guys off guard. So early in the season, its NOT even winter yet!! Take care, buddy!
meyermike_1micha
Original Author
12 years ago
Pug, Paul, Linda, Josh and Wanton, thanks so much for your concern. It means a lot.

Lots of cleaning up to do now that the snow has melted. What a pain to clean when everything is stuck frozen to the ground.

Mike
pennyhal
12 years ago
What a mess. Mother Nature can sure throw a fit. Time to invite all your friends over for a pot luck...unless their yards look the same!
Loveplants2 8b Virginia Beach, Virginia
12 years ago
Hello Everyone,

Mike,

Im so sorry to see all of the damage to your beautiful trees. Im sure it was awful feeling like you had no control of the amount of snow building up on the trees and hearing all of the limbs breaking. That is a awful thing to hear...

Last winter DH and I were outside knocking off the snow from the fronds of our palms. The heavy amounta of snow plays havoc onthe trees that still have leaves on them. Like someone else said, mother nature knows what she is doing when she sheds the leaves, this time the timing was off just a bit.

Thinking of you and all of the others up north who are still without power. I hope that the other Electric companies are all coming to the rescue to help you all get the lines and power back on real soon.

Take care Mike,

Hi to SISSY!!!

Laura in VB
ladylotus
12 years ago
Mike,

I'm sorry to hear of the snow storm that ripped through the east coast. This is way to early for you guys to start dealing with such a mess.

I hope you did not lose anything too valuable in the pots you had outdoors. I hope everything survives for you and you are able to get everything cleaned up soon. Take care! Be safe.
ilovetogrow z9 Jax Florida
12 years ago
cactusmcharris has not reported in as of yet. I am hoping he is safe.
wantonamara Z8 CenTex
12 years ago
Catusmcharris is in BC, Canada, other side of the continent.
prayerrock
12 years ago
Glad to see everyone ok..heck of a storm eh mike! We are having one hell of a bad wind storm tonight, I am surpried we still have power. The trees are loosing branches and bending all over the place. Me and my furkids are staying in the house and hoping for the best till this storm passes.

Mary
micki
12 years ago
Hi Mike,
sorry to hear about all the damage and the hard work you have ahead of you. Here in W PA we missed it. My father however in MD had 15 inches of snow in a couple days.

Just as we are trying to get ahead of the clean up too, now you've got a ton more,
Speedy Cleanup,
Micki

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