Northeast Gardening: Hurricane Irene Pt2, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
We are alive, well, and the house and vehicles are fine as is good old Harry who got used to going to bed at 8 PM.

Thanks, WC, for your call - you are a sweetie and you can give me the $20.00 anytime. Thanks to Allison, Louise, Pixie, OutlawHeart and all others who were concerned about us and praying for us. The winds here were much more damaging than the not quite 2.5 inches of rain. They were clocked by local greenhouses at 71 MPH.

The amount of trees, young and old, uprooted or destroyed by the winds was horrific and hard to believe. One tree downed blocked a neighbor's driveway and the town removed it as the storm subsided but they didn't remove other split trees on narrow streets that could have killed anyone walking or driving by. For the first time I'm very disappointed in the Town of Southold.

Fallen limbs have created deep holes in the "grass" so every step has to be taken with great care. Fallen branches are everywhere and Jack's been to the dump with the contents of two refrigerators and their freezer compartments. A landscape team of five guys was here two days doing the clean-up and they were wonderful.

I do thank God it wasn't worse and if I hear one more crybaby on radio I do believe I will scream!

We did have major garden changes due to the storm as evidenced by this before and after photo: