Sunday, January 22, 2012
WINDBLOWN
Damage Widespread Following High Winds
For about four hours yesterday we got hurricane force winds, west to east, and a fairly serious sand/dust storm.
We only lost power for a few minutes but others might still be out.
The damage is pretty bad. I can headcount ten trees in our "walking park" at the library which are down and gone. Dead. This is the second or third serious blow in as many years and the plantation in the park is getting very thin. Windblown.
Many of these trees are mature and over watered. So they have shallow roots and just can't take it any more. The wood is punky and weak. Some pines, many desert willows. Brittle.
At our house we are all palm trees in the condo development so we have a lot of bark around. Sand. We have sand.
One of our umbrellas out front sailed into the neighbors courtyard. The leasers. They put it away so we couldn't see it and called the real estate guy that they had it. Keerist. John went all over looking and then saw the real estate guy who lives down the road a piece. Connect.
In the back, where I planted the nice poinsettia we got for christmas, there are a small pile or red leaves and a broken stump. I am just going to leave it as is and see what happens. They are very brittle.
Sand everywhere. I cleaned out the fountain first thing. Siphon and clean at the same time, sucking out sand as I went.
We are sure that this windy thing is new. There has always been wind at the desert but mostly "out there" and not so fierce. A sign of things to come?
