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A Hurricane Is Coming And I Have 26 Fig Tress On My Roof...


AND a Fig Tree tied to an antenna.


Can I start crying now? 


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Nick, 

How do you move them down in the winter? I would start moving them now before it hits. 
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Nick - 26 roomates for the night get to work.
Hope all goes well and you don't get any damage
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If you can't move them to shelter, I would go ahead and lay them down til it blows over with the pots pointed into the prevailing wind. Good luck!
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I will add this!


In 1961 we lived in Houston TX, we were warned to take shelter away from Houston, because Carla was on the way, we loaded up that little 55 Ford (with 4 kids a wife and a pit-bull and hauled you know what to Waco TX (200 mi. from Houston) as soon as Carla hit Houston and the Gulf coast we were blasted in Waco with numerous TORNADOES..

Ya might keep that in mind, down on the Gulf coast Hurricanes spawn Tornadoes.

Good luck to all East Coasters. 
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What is mama going to say when she sees what was on her roof?
Hope the storm goes easy on you guys.

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Hi Nick since we talked last night Irene is now at catagory 1 with sustained winds at 85mph. Perhaps with a little luck it will further weaken who knows.
What have you heard as of late. 

According to stormcaster
As of 8 a.m. Hurricane Irene's winds were topping out at 85 miles per hour as it made its way north-northeast at 14 miles per hour. It is five miles north-norteast of Cape Lookout, N.C. and about 60 miles southwest of Cape Hatteras, N.C.

Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 90 miles from the center, while tropical storm force winds have a reach of 260 miles, the National Hurricane Center says.

Meanwhile, a light rain has begun to fall in Cape May, as the southern part of the state starts to see the outer bands of the storm.


edit:http://abcnews.go.com/News/hurricanes/page?id=14355852
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Bass, I never moved them before, this is my first year.
I am going to weed out more than half and put a shed up there,
or prune and place some in my unheated cellar.


I have them tied up as a group.
They are weighed down with river stones and a couple of bricks.
Not certain it you can see, but behind the Figs are two large 50 gal containers
with grape vines in them growing up the side of the building.
Some grape vines are  grabbing on to a couple of the Fig trees.
Maybe that will help keep them in place too.

I got them in thur that window  No door up the ( not yet anyway )
meaning some are too big to bring back in without major damage to the trees.
The roof also doesn't have a railing making me think If I lay them on their side,
there is a increased chance of them rolling off to the street down below.

The smallest ones I will bring in today.

Maybe I'll go up there now and double tie the rest of them down. 

My biggest worry is not having my mom see what I'm up to.  :)
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Oldghost, 

How old are you ? Just tell your Mom you brought some friends home
and them give her some figs to eat, hopefully she will be HOOKED 
on the flavor like the rest of us FIG NUTS. Good Luck !
 
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May be time to buy mom a bottle of wine
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I have been giving her the first of every ripe fig I get.
She has been enjoying them, and comments that she has never tried so many
different figs. ( even though with every new fig I give her, I expose yet another
tree up there.)

And in response to the question of my age, I'm old enough to not want to overly upset my 75 year old mother.
But for some strange reason, she has this totally unfounded, unreasonable, 
fear of sleeping directly under 26 Fig Trees.

She can be so silly....
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Nick, 

That's very nice of you for not wanting to upset your 75 year old 
mother and keep feeding her the figs...
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It's getting bad.


it's 1 a.m. in Brooklyn and Irene is getting closer.
Rain is coming down hard, so is the wind.
Large trees in the street and yards are swaying.
No one on the streets except for the Police and the Fire Department,
It's really getting bad.
I'm not even in a " Low lying area" I cant image how those areas are looking now.
The scary thing is Irene is still a couple of hundred miles away and the worst is
yet to come in a few hours.

Subways and Buses are shut done.
So are most bridges and tunnels. 

Everyone in the path stay safe.
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