Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Your Neck of the Woods Chat Summer 2012 Part 1, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Our area fared pretty well. What might help is all our power lines are underground.
Seems no one in my immediate area lost power.
Worked today--how troubling--people calling all day non stop to ask if we had any Generators.
Nope! All stores totally sold out. I almost wanted to say: Thank you for calling the White marsh HD--
We have NO generators. But--that would have been rude....

Later as I was the greeter (5-6PM) couples and people were coming in looking for generators in despair.
50,000 people are out of power. BG&E sait it may take 4-5 days to even come close to getting to all of them.
People with sweat-soaked clothes. Desperate about their food and freezers.

I tell you now--if there was any one in my neighborhood w/o power--I would take them in.

Anyway----last night I was really tired and went to bed around 9PM. I woke up as the storm was raging.
My bed is right next to a window that looks out to my back yard and the maples.
I heard the howling and the thunder--but was too afraid to look out the window.

Damages? Nothing serious. Many pots blown over---my big trellis that holds up my Climbing Rose
almost toppled. My fault. When they put in all my new gutters and downspouts--
I forgot to cable-tie the trellis to the new downspout.
My heavy, square pot against my shed with my big Hosta in it---over it went--as did all my pots of Clivias.
They cannot fall off to the ground--as they are right against my big, old Burning Bush- but all were on their side.

Grateful that is all that there was. Another similar storm coming again tonight.
Hunker down anything that may get blown over.
Gita
Some pictures:--2 sends...
Other than that--a bunch of dead branches all over from the trees. Just cleaned them up.