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Want Them All
10-14-2009, 10:30 PM
Yesterday a crazy dust storm passed by, visibility was maybe a couple hundred feet. I rushed home from work to find this.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=24992&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=24992&limit=recent)


Normally, this is how the shade canopies look.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=24991&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=24991&limit=recent)


I even "reinforced" the base of the structure with several of these iron U-hooks driven into the ground, but I guess the hooks are too short, and the wind was too strong.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=24993&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=24993&limit=recent)


A few of my shade canopies had their 4 posts buried about 18" in the ground, like this one around a White Sapote, those were not blown over.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=24994&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=24994&limit=recent)

I guess I will have to disassemble all tha canopies that I've built and start from scratch, and this time bury the supporting posts in the ground.

mjdsinsacto
10-15-2009, 03:00 AM
BEFORE BIG WINDS

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=25000&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25000)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=25001&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25001)

AFTER BIG WINDS

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=24948&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=24948)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=24947&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=24947)

<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=24947><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=24947&size=1 border=0></a>

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=24946&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=24946)

Here's where those broken stalks wound up--my kitchen table.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=24999&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=24999)


New banana plants, potted rose bushes, begonias and colocasias were safely tucked under covered patio where they stayed nicely dry.

Want Them All
10-15-2009, 09:48 AM
Was that recently?

mjdsinsacto
10-15-2009, 10:16 AM
Was that recently?

monday night, tuesday, most of wednesday