Thanks Sharon.  I was seriously going to call you but deceided to give the trees a test.  As for your generator, I have one big one...bought it brand new years ago.  But did not crank it up for 4 years!  Get yourself 2 cans of starting fluid.  It got mine to crank and works fine yearly.  I will call you tomorrow after 5 if you have some time to talk.  People are already asking me about hosting a fig fest.  We need to talk about that.

How did everyone fair against the snow? I was a little worried my young in ground fig would die in the below freezing temperatures(around 15 Fahrenheit), but it seems fine. My funky Israeli plant may have died but I suspect it'll be coming back to life in summer again.

Gary,

Still can get cold there, I remember being snowed in for days in Jerusalem. YEARS before that, at my first night at Bakum ( closer to Tel Aviv) we had rain, wind, then heaps of snow, the eucalyptus trees were snapping, and recruits were getting hypothermia while I was having fun lobbing snow balls at other recruits.

Is it as cold as Va. Beach? No idea, certainty it's not as cold as CT. But like Tidewater-Hampton roads area of VA it gets snow every now and then.

Virginia beach is like some weird purgatory of climate. Winter temperatures have gone as low as 5oF to like 85, also the funky Israeli plant I mentioned is some aquatic vining plant and not a fig tree, sorry for the confusion.

Screwed up my courage and went out and checked my trees to see how they did with the 5" of snow and the 11 degree temps we had. Older Celestes and Brunswicks are fine. No visible damage at this point. Mt. Etna varieties have tip damage on some of smaller branches but main stems still look good. SariZebec looks good and its in a very exposed location where the wind comes whistling through. It appears to be fairly tough variety. The saddest sacks in my orchard are the in ground BTs and Italian Honey family of trees even the Black Mission looks better than they do. Tomorrow it may hit 70 F degrees. Pretty sure that should be enough to get my crazily suicidal early blueberry to push out its first flowers.  I shake my head every year at its lack of common sense but although it starts to bloom in January well ahead of the start of our growing season, it still comes through with berries in summer. Don't remember what it is, the tag is long gone but its a semi-evergreen variety that keeps some of its leaves all winter long. It produces a medium to large light blue berry.

@MariannaMiller  You should take cuttings of that Blueberry and make more bushes from it and spread them around your property... It sounds like a winner... 

I checked my trees yesterday.
Only 1 of my 1 year old trees got the bite.
I planted my orchard on a south east facing slope.
I can see change of color on some branches after they have
been killed back.
Went from a nice green to a yellow/brown color.
Oh well, I'm betting it grows right back, I hope so its
my only smith.

Doug