Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Hail damaged Brugs, 1 by Plant_Madness

Plant_Madness wrote:
If your brugs were girdled like that and survived there is some hope for mine. Time will tell, I'll let ya'll know just how much damage a brug can take and live to tell about it . If I find the trunks too 'ugly' there's always vines...
They are calling it a supercell storm and there were no major injuries and no deaths which I was surprised to hear. We live right by the freeway and I was sure it would be bad. The weather station at the small airport near us reported winds of 92mph before it went down. There were about 50 power poles snapped, some landing on houses -two of which were destroyed and we spent some quality time with the chainsaw last week cutting up all of the trees in the neighborhood that were broken and uprooted. I don't think the stores will be selling any of their bundled firewood anytime soon, we all have plenty now. We've had microbursts and a couple of supercells hit us before but this one definitely took the cake.

Frankly I'm just glad my house still has a roof . Most of the plants will grow back, my EEs and bananas have already put out new leaves. I will say it was rather heartbreaking to see mother nature undo in 12 minutes what took me months and in some cases years but what can you do except clean it up and start again.

I have two small beds in my backyard that were up against the house and had zero damage so when I need a break from cleaning up the mess in the rest of the yard I go gaze at those for a bit. (Although I've contemplated whether it is a good thing or not they survived. I just start thinking it isn't so bad then look at the intact beds and groan. Blessings and curses....)

I take it back, I'm glad this bed survived. :)
Thanks again for the help and encouragement.
Cris