bananimal

No damage at all from H-cane Irene!!!!

Just leaf shredding.

So now I have ropes cut to length for the next one.

Wishing the best for everyone on the east coast.

fishoifc

just got power back it was a long storm our little island got hammered prety good.I myself got very lucky there was heavy flooding all around and its very messy everywhere.lots of trees down marsh grass and random boats. No one got hurt and things should be back to normal here soon.

all my banana plants were badly twisted but no broken stems we were very lucky winds topped at around 80 for gust. Hard to imagine what a more intense storm would do.

A few of my smaller plants (matts) were broken at the ground,but all my favorites are still there at least the stems are.

I did dig two six footers and tip them over they look good just a few broken and shredded leaves hopefully there roots will regrow soon most of the dirt was washed off the exposed side of the root ball

kcj1219

Glad everyone made it out okay! That's great to hear. I didn't even get leaf shredding here in Charleston. But Charleston is due!

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bananimal

Fish ---- glad you had min damage at home. How is the boat?
BTW - snook keeper season opens down here Thurs. I'll be working the bridges and docks for the slots in my little Sailfish 18 ft cc.

Still concerned for Alex in Staten Island. A lot of folks won't be able to report till they get power back.

Dan

oakshadows

Anyone get news from the NE. Winds were weaker but the rains and flooding must be terrible.

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momoese

Vermont is toast.

oakshadows

Bad news. Very nice state and some nice people.

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john_ny

Dan (bananimal)- I'm in Staten Island. Alex is in New York City, but I don't think in Staten Island.
I didn't make any special preparations for the storm, with the plants. I stacked up some plastic chairs, and things like that. I have a few basjoos, growing in the ground, and they got no damage. I have a bunch of containers, with various bananas, and other tropical plants, like Mandevilla, Allamanda, Hibiscus, etc., etc. The only damage there was two leaves broken off one potted basjoo.
We lost power for 32 hours, starting at 5:30 AM, on Sunday. My property runs from street to street, and I had big broken branches, reaching to the middle of both the front and back streets. I also had an uprooted Granny Smith apple tree, with about a 10 inch diameter trunk. We got a little water in the cellar and, with no power, the sump pump wouldn't work. We're just about at the top of a hill, so there was no other water damage.
I was going to take a couple of pictures, but the batteries were dead and, again with no power, I couldn't charge them, Maybe tomorrow.

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bananimal

John,

Alex - palmtree - told me he is in SI and 2 blocks from the beach. He estimates 30 ft above sea level. I know that areas of SI are hilly from driving around, and he did mention Todt hill is really up there at 400 ft.

Still, 2 blocks is too close. No report yet so he may be in trouble. Waiting to hear.

Oh yeah - the other thing I remember about SI is that almost every Italian restaurant makes good clams oreganata. Not the case here where I am.

Dan

saltydad

Glad to hear things are pretty good now for you, John. If anyone hears from Alex please post ASAP> Thanks.

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RayS

I live in Mass. halfway between Boston and Providence. Took before pics to compare with after pics, but damage was negligible, not even worth taking pics. Very minor shredding, I even had very light items left out that were overlooked and they are still in their original spots. We lost power for seven hours, and the towns around are still without power. The next town over, Foxboro is still without power and the Pats had to look at game tapes somewhere else. The western part of Mass. got hit pretty hard, they are just south of Vermont.

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john_ny

My update: I have a friend (JimZone7) who is a member here, and has a landscape business. I was going to have his crew remove the branches, but his crew supervisor told me to try the City of NY, to see if they would do it. I called 311 (our city's non-emergency question/information/complaint line), and repoprted the problem, at about 3 PM, Monday. The respopnse was that the info had been turned over to the forestry division of the parks department, and it might take them up to 5 days to evaluate, and then, if approved, up to 30 days to resolve. When I went out this morning, I found a couple of firemen out there cutting the branch, and pushing it against the curb. When my wife came home from work, she asked me what the machine was up front, (Our property is 200 feet deep, and my wife parks in the back driveway; it's closer to the house) I said that I would take a look and, when I got up there, I saw a big truck with a grabber on it, and they were just about finishing picking up the pieces of the branch. I spoke to the guys, and told them that I had another similar branch on the back street. After picking up another tree, down at the corner, they came around the block and got the one on the back street.

I couldn't believe this. This city, which has given my nursery business nothing but grief, in all the years that I have had it, actually picked up the branches on both streets within 24 hours!

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