We just enjoyed our second hurricane since moving to Alabama. First Sally, now Zeta!
I must admit, I did not expect such a dramatic welcome to the Gulf Coast. We also didn’t expect to have Zeta go almost over us, as we thought it was destined for further west.
We didn’t have candles, oil for the lamps, extra food or anything.
But hey… we’re from South Florida. Anything less than a Cat 3 is barely worthy of a Home Depot duct tape and tarp run.
The power went out for a few hours but is back now. A big thanks to the hard-working guys at the electric company.
Last night I was on the front porch when the transformer arced and blew out a few blocks away:
Fortunately we don’t have any damage to the house or our van, though the gardens took a bit of a beating.
The fruit trees in the front yard look fine:
In the test beds the seedlings were battered but I think they’ll pull through.
The rye cover crop was blown sideways but should be fine.
The bananas I planted were laid sideways.
Multiplier onion leaves were smashed around and laid down.
But the daikons look like nothing happened.
A large limb was dropped on a turnip bed but caused minimal damage.
Meanwhile, Zeta looks to have made the garlic pop up:
For those of you that saw more damage, my condolences. I hope everyone is okay. What a crazy year!
5 responses to “Hurricane Zeta Garden Aftermath”
Not so bad.
Thanks for the update.
Glad is wasn’t too bad for you. Started blowing pretty hard around 11pm here in Chipley. I found out when a pile of empty cardboard boxes from my continued unpacked blew over on the front porch and knock one of the two camp chairs against the front door. Later it distributed those boxes across the field. Rain started about midnight and though I didn’t notice is was ever all that hard, it was continuous. Not sure how much since the wind blew over my 5-gal rain bucket gauge. :p Looks to have been 8″ or more from another bucket on the back porch with willow branches in it that overflowed. It had some water in it from earlier rain, so can’t tell how much from that one, but that’s where my guess comes from.
And once the on and off drizzles fade, I get to pull all my tarps and ground covers back over the beds and re-stake them. About half got blown loose even with sandbags and stakes holding them in place. No real damage that I have found though, aside from some probably cover crop seed washouts (time will tell.)
Hope that’s the last excitement for 2020. Had enough!
Meanwhile, 4 new chicks so far. Not all bad news this morning! :)
4 new chicks! Great.
We also have moving boxes scattered about outside.
As for the excitement of 2020… we still have the upcoming reelection of President Trump. That’s going to flip a lot of people out.
I’ve been looking at your daikons thinking how awesome it would be to grow some. There is a korean variety that looks a bit rounder and larger, I’ll be on the hunt for those, very delicious.
They are such fun to grow. Like digging treasure.