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landscapewitch

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Really want to know that everyone there is alright after Issac. 
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Well, they wouldn't be here to complain if they weren't, so I'm thinking all is well!  Haven't kept track of it, and hope it is dumping rain now on the droughts in our country.

Alexis, I was actually worried this would be a southern joke I wouldn't get ;-)  But I see it's not!  Not this time.........  Just wait!  I'll get ya!!

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I was on the  western edge of the storm so I only had some wind and about 1.5 inches of rain.   Glad it wasn't any worse after going through Rita in 2005 and Ike in 08.
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Thanks Alexis for caring enough to ask. We came through it without any real problems here in Houma. The biggest problem was the lost of power for 6 days. My in ground trees got beat up a bit but some hearty pruning will make them as good as new. They were due a sever pruning this winter anyway. I don't think any got beat up to the death of them although my O'Rourke is shifted and leaning in a different direction. As long as the roots weren't broke off I think it will be alright. One of my two largest trees, Cajun Gold, that has a trunk about 6 inches across is bent pretty hard. I don't know how it bent like that and didn't snap or didn't get pulled out of the ground.

We sat in the eye of the storm for a full day and that helped us a lot. The winds were light and the air was full of mist. It was not a clean eye like I saw for hurricane Betsey. Betsey was a monster. By the time the storm move north it has lost a lot of it punch. The approching storm gave us it's hardest winds out of the north and northeast. When it got far enough north of us it gave us west and southwest winds all of which drove the water out of the area. By the time we got south and southeast winds there wasn't in punch left in it. If it had continues west instead of stopping here, we would have gotten the south and southeast wind which would have flooded us like it did to people in Lafitte, St. Bernard and Plaquemines. Thank you Lord.

Cajun Gold that wasn't bent.


Cajun Gold right next to the other that was bent.


My O'Rourke pushed over





LSU Tiger wind whipped real bad


Paradiso from Herman


Wind whipped small tree.


Most of my young trees were under my lean-to which I boarded up.




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