The Quack Shack

[Supercow]

This was 15 yrs ago? Boy that looks scary!

That's today. 2008 was scarier at our location but comparable at some other nearby places.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Wow I hope everyone is safe. Do y’all get tornados? Probably called something else there.

 

[Supercow]

Wow I hope everyone is safe. Do y’all get tornados? Probably called something else there.

We normally don't, technically, although there have been some appearances all over Europe in the last several years.

Wind speed was... well, while the wind was decidedly strong, it would only be called a Cat 1 storm in the US (around 70 mph). The 2008 event would be Cat 2.

Animals, people and buildings are OK at our location. We lost or partly lost 5 large trees but... that's why we have so many trees. If our landscape was more sparse it would have been a wipeout. All the apple trees are OK.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thank goodness all is okay.
We are surrounded by huge trees. Thankfully we’re kind of secluded from very high winds here at the bottom of the mountain but sure is a lot different up top.

 

[Supercow]

Thank goodness all is okay.
We are surrounded by huge trees. Thankfully we’re kind of secluded from very high winds here at the bottom of the mountain but sure is a lot different up top.

Big single trees are the most beautiful feature of a landscape to my eyes. But I believe - have believed for the last decade or so - that their time is done because of the ever more charged atmosphere.

The idea is to switch to plants that are naturally stockier and/or resilient to high wind, and plant them densely - willows, hazels, blackthorn, cornelian cherry, mid-size fruit rootstocks... We have pretty good many-layered windbreaks but not from the side that was hit this morning because that's the village road. Anyway -- live to fight again.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Huh, you sent the weather this way! We're under a tornado watch right now. Plus on and off thunderstorms. I still haven't braved the weather to go feed the animals.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Send some rain with out the tornado our way we need rain.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Tornado watch is off now, thank goodness. Still have severe thunderstorm watches on, though.

Each time I want to go outside and figure the rain has calmed down, it starts up again.

 

[Miss Lydia]

You need some rain gear.

 

[Canadian Wind]

You need some rain gear.

That I do! At least I have rubber boots.