Windstorm damage in my backyard.

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.

Normally, this is how the shade canopies look.

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.

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.

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

AFTER BIG WINDS

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

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Want Them All

Was that recently?

monday night, tuesday, most of wednesday

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mjdsinsacto reformed gardener mjdsinsacto's Photo Gallery Location: Rosemont, Sacramento, CA Find me on the map! Zone: 9 Name: mjd Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 843 BananaBucks : 19,786 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 76 Times Was Thanked 226 Times in 98 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 21 Times	2 nights and days of gusty winds and rains = broken cannas BEFORE BIG WINDS AFTER BIG WINDS <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> Here's where those broken stalks wound up--my kitchen table. New banana plants, potted rose bushes, begonias and colocasias were safely tucked under covered patio where they stayed nicely dry. __________________

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