Hope all our east coast rosers are faring well tonight. We did fine.
More water, just what I wanted! G

Seriously, we did not even have a power outage, though the winds and
debris hitting the house were scary.

Anne and Susan, how did you fare?

In m Shiva wrote:
Seriously, we did not even have a power outage, though the winds and
debris hitting the house were scary.

Good luck, you guys... I saw the news pictures, which were pretty
dramatic. Hope you're some distance inland!

Daniel Hanna wrote:

In m Shiva wrote:
Seriously, we did not even have a power outage, though the winds and
debris hitting the house were scary.

Good luck, you guys... I saw the news pictures, which were pretty
dramatic. Hope you're some distance inland!

Thanks, Daniel, we are, but that doesn't always stop the hurricane-force
winds. This time it looks like Virginia and the DC area got it much worse.
In the morning light my property is a mess with limbs and small debris,
gutter caps missing from the house, but no rose losses, no house damage
and most roads are clear. Thank heavens we had not had any heavy rains
in the past ten days. They had in VA and that is why what they are seeing
is huge, healthy trees just uprooted, no cracks, and falling on houses
and cars. This is what Hurricane Fran did here.

We did pretty well. That is, except for the sinus/ear infection that
started on Thursday. We had storm proofed the yard so no real problems
there. The only injury was a butterfly bush that got knocked down by
the neighbor's baby pool. *sigh* Why they didn't put in the their
garage, I'll never know. Fortunately, the s.o. righted the bush, tamped
down the dirt around it and it seems to be doing okay so far.

As to water, it wasn't as bad as some of the rain we had earlier this
year. My guess is that the winds had a heavy drying effect on the
water. I know that the following day (Friday) I had to water my potted
black fig tree that I had left outside through the storm as I figured
its size and weight would keep it from harm.

Susan
shsimko at duke dot edu