I think your chances of getting a good crop are excellent as long as you don't have a bunch of raccoons hanging around, and as long as you have a method of preventing or mitigating damage from corn earworm and European corn borers. Normally, corn that has lodged (blown over) will straighten itself back up. I've had stalks that were 8' tall when they lodged just straighten themselves right back up on the next day, especially if it is a hot sunny day. If the corn hasn't done that after 3 or 4 days, then it might not straighten up on its own. If it doesn't straighten up on its own, you can straighten it up, but normally it will stand back up just fine. Now, my experience is only with well-amended clay because I don't have much sandy soil. If you have extremely sandy soil and it is extremely wet, the corn may find it harder to stand up and remain standing. Maybe someone here who raises corn in really sandy soil can comment on whether or not having sandy soil makes a difference. When I had a smaller garden, and less rows of corn plants, I'd just straighten up the corn myself the next morning. The bigger the garden became and the more corn I planted, the less time I had available, so now the corn needs to stand up on its own or it likely will lie on the ground for the rest of its life. I have 5 varieties of corn growing and none of them blew over this morning in the strong thunderstorm, so we likely didn't have wind that was as strong here as what you had there. My corn ranges in height from 3.5' tall to 7 or 8' tall, depending on the variety and how early it was planted, and I think it only has lodged twice this year. That's pretty typical for my location. The main danger of having lodged corn is that, if it is silking while it is lodged, the pollen may miss the silks when it falls since the plants are not standing upright with the tassels directly over the silks. If that were to happen, your corn ears might not have good kernel production. If I had corn that was silking and it was lodged, I probably wouldn't wait any longer than 24 hours for it to straighten up, and then I'd try to find time to straighten it up for myself so the ears wouldn't be affected by poor pollination.

I think the chances are pretty good. At my wedding 30 years ago, my mother in law and her mother had the same dress - they did not live in the same state either or shop the same store. Also, my MIL's MIL wore the same dress except it was in a different color. The funny thing is when they were all talking about their dresses on the phones, they each gave a different description of the dress and the two that had the same color, described a diffferent color. Years later, my MIL still talks about it. When my daughter got married last year, I sent a picture of my dress to the groom's mother and step mother. Pluse I went with my MIL to help her pick out her dress. I didn't want that to happen to me although it would have been a little funny.

Well it's a new day and still no toilet. I have a septic tank cleaning company coming sometime this afternoon to drain the tank. Apparently what has happened is due to the extreme amount of rain we had in a short time period. We are in low lying land as is all of Houston basically, so our yard is literally under water, flooded except for a few high spots. This is the norm here in these kinds of rain storms. But this time it caused my septic system to drown. The lateral lines that are buried in the ground and drain the liquid off the top of the septic tank are actually under water so the ground around them is fully saturated and unable to absorb the water from the lines which in turn causes the tank to top off and when you flush there's no place for anything else to go. We have been very lucky because this has never happened to us before. We have had septic tank repairs, drained, and the lateral lines rotor rooted out but this is a new one for us. However it's pretty common here and that's what we were told since we have had a deluge of rain. It's also why the septic tank company is busy. We will have the tank drained, that allows the ground time to dry out some and the lateral lines to drain.. We have had septic tanks at many of our homes, including my parents house, and have rarely had any problems. It really is all about how low the land is here and the water table, sea level. We had so much rain so hard and fast it started leaking in the house around one of the door frames. I am really praying for some dry weather! I will say that if you are ever in need of an emergency potty they sell them at Academy sports, in the camping area! Lol the things you can find using Google!

Same here - I buy a few every year because they are just delights in the gloomy days of early February. A couple of dozen in wide bowl shaped pots are a winter joy and are cheaper than a bouquet of chrysanthemums or carnation. I always enjoy that mad extension growth of the foliage after blooming. If I put the pot under cover and keep it dry all summer, they do sometimes re-appear..but can be sketchy. Don't fret - I also came across 2 packets of species tulips I had forgotten about...will pot them up today.