Originally Posted by Bananaman88

My wife and I made it back yesterday. Minimal damage to the house, as reported earlier. Some shingles blown off, about 30' of fence blown down and a small section of flashing starting to come loose from my covered patio. No big deall all-in-all considering some of the other damage I've seen. My landscape, however, is completely trashed. All of my bananas look like someone stuck the leaves in the garbage disposal. Probably the only two still outside (most of my potted plants were stored in the garage) that look even decent are my M. laterita and 'Thai
Gold. The laterita, I laid on the ground and the Thai Gold was up against the house and blew over early on so it's pretty much OK. My Ae-Ae is laid over but not broken. I should be able to stake it, along with my Raja Puri and they will be fine. I had some 10' crepe myrtles that were completely smashed by the fence. Anything slightly herbaceous such as canas, gingers, bananas, etc, is just completely trashed. The good news is that plants like these easily recover. They'll look terrible for the rest of this year but I'm not too worried. We and our house made it through OK and that's all that really matters. Still no power at my house but when it comes back on, I'll try to post some of the photos of the mess.