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Old 12-08-2009, 12:07 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Default Re: Forget the rain, WILD WIND today.

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Originally Posted by pitangadiego View Post
Didn't look good in daylight. Hopefully will get home in time to take pix. Don't know what the wind speed was, but easily the worst wind in close to 20 years. Blew clay tiles off the roof of the house. Had to be gusts over 60 mph. The last time we had wind like this, it blew the neighbor's patio cover over the house and 200 ft into the street.
We do get 60 mph winds here in San Diego, during either winter storms or the hot "Santa Ana" winds from the Great Basin. This got me wondering how our local member Bryan Kale is doing with his hydroponic bananas out in the open on his rooftop:

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ROOFTOP HYDROPONIC BANANAS
(Yes, on the roof of my house)

This IS the new trend in Urban City Farming, and I'd like to help promote this efficient method of converting unused space into a Farm.
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