I thought I would share these photos that I have. They are from hurricanes Ivan & Dennis. Between these two storms we have lost about half of the trees in our town and many more are still damaged. This is why I think it is more important than ever to be replanting. The pictures are not the best but hopefully they will do. This one is at our city park, notice the crushed slide.
Really sorry about your trees.
I love that gazebo structure in the back ground. Truly glad none of the trees hit that.
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another one in the park
some trees on homes
Downed trees were piled up on the curbs. For awhile you couldn't even see the houses behind them.
The roots of this pecan tree lifted this whole car up
The roots of this pecan tree lifted this whole car up
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We sometimes have tornadoes that come through. They do damage like what you've photographed but the damage they do is not as widespread as that of a hurricane. Really sorry about your trees.
I believe some of the worst damage here was from numerous tornadoes that were spawned from the hurricane (Ivan). It has been said by state officials that my town was hardest hit, even though we are 60 miles inland. I can really tell that most of the trees are gone. Small things like the sound of car horns and radios used to be blocked by the trees. It seems noisier and hotter now. The sad thing is most people are not replanting because of fear of another one.
Looks like my neighborhood after Katrina passed through. We had to literally chainsaw our way out due to all the downed trees and powerlines in the road. I lost about 60% of the trees on my 2 acre lot, including a 40 year old water oak that shaded my back deck. Just got all my stumps ground about a month ago and now they tell us this hurricane season is going to be worse, yippie!
Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast lost many, many trees from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. However, even in the most ravished areas I notice that the live oaks have held their ground. If it were not for the live oaks, New Orleans would be naked at the moment.
I would suggest, seriously, that anyone living in hurricane prone areas consider planting the live oak, Quercus virginiana. My suburban lot is only 60 x 120 but the live oak fits quite well on it.
This photo was taken last year before Katrina. My gardens look a little raggedy now, so does my house.
we had the same type of damage after H. Fran in 96. 100 mile per hour winds here in Raleigh and lots of mini tornados-that was the longest night. We had had several rains in the days before- 3 days before we had 3" of rain, so by the time Fran hit, the ground was already soaking wet and the roots of the trees couldn't handle it when the hurricane winds switched direction after the eye came through
Its always shocking to come out and see the damage after the storm passes thru. Its like you are on a different planet or something
