Damage Control

[Dypsisdean]

I often hear comments about how easy it must be to garden and grow in Hawaii. But like all things in life, there are ups and downs - treats and tribulations. The latest storm was rare for this side of the island, and left things quite mess. But nothing a week or two of hard work, and a year or two of good growing won't fix.

And it gives you a chance to see some things up close - to be reminded how pretty they are - were.

Rat Patrol for scale.

[Palm Tree Jim]

Ouch. 

[Kailua_Krish]

The flooding on Oahu was unreal. I got off easy though just minor damage here. Sorry to see the damage you got

[Johnny Palmseed]

1 hour ago, Dypsisdean said:

I often hear comments about how easy it must be to garden and grow in Hawaii. But like all things in life, there are ups and downs - treats and tribulations. The latest storm was rare for this side of the island, and left things quite mess. But nothing a week or two of hard work, and a year or two of good growing won't fix.

And it gives you a chance to see some things up close - to be reminded how pretty they are - were.

Rat Patrol for scale.

Areca Vestiaria? Is there hope of righting and replanting them? I feel your pain. After every hurricane or tropical storm here, I lose something. Palms, lemon tree, pool screen room (uninsured - found out after the fact it got dropped from homeowners policy. Ugh).

[Brad52]

Dang, sorry to see that, were they uprooted and blown over?  We had pretty good wind all day Sunday, but less yesterday, I think we only had 3" of rain in the period Sat-Tues.  I was walking around yesterday when a rain blast with wind came through so I ducked under the house and recorded at bit.

[Dypsisdean]

@Johnny Palmseed @Brad52 I had a 75+ ft. ohia with philodendron covering 50 ft. of it that acted like a sail and uprooted the whole tree. It clipped the tallest of the Vestiaria before taking everything else out underneath - mostly Anthuriums and such. That was LOUD. There is enough left of the Vestiaria for it to come back. And I don't think it killed any palms. And it came close to taking out both our trucks. So - could have been worse.

[Scott W]

Oh wow!  

My brother sent some video yesterday during some of the monsoon rains.  Crazy to think about that kind of weather event this time of year.

[realarch]

Whoa Dean, close call. Glad to hear the garden should recover quickly, it could have been so much worse. 

Our neighborhood only received 4” of rain and thankfully very little wind. Hilo side usually gets hammered. I’ve had numerous palms taken out by wind.

Tim

[TheMadScientist]

ABC7 News Los Angeles just now showed the flooding BUT, claim in the next day.....expect up to 25 inches of rain.....

I hope I heard it in error, but I can't relate to that much rain.  Thinking about our PT FAMILY in Hawaii.

[John hovancsek]

My shade house is down because of the wind. Now I have to rebuild 

[WaianaeCrider]

8 hours ago, Scott W said:

Oh wow!  

My brother sent some video yesterday during some of the monsoon rains.  Crazy to think about that kind of weather event this time of year.

 This is the time of the year for crazy storms like this.   In 2008 we had like 15 inches in 24 hrs and 8 or so in a few  hours that night.  This year I had 8+ inches 6-7 Dec.  No damage other than lots of silt built up in my "dry" stream.  Two muddy to go down and take pictures.  LOL  At least it's over for now.

 

[mike in kurtistown]

Lots of rain (maybe as much as 10 inches, though I don't have precise measuring equipment) here in east Hawaii at 740 feet, some blown by fierce winds. I can't measure wind speed either, but gusts to 40 mph were predicted. The back half of my property is bordered by stands of large weed trees on the east, north, and west sides. Since the wind was from the south, tree falls were mainly parallel or away from my fence line, so there was less damage than might have otherwise occurred. But there were effects, and I attach a few pics:

Here, some of the neighbor's weed trees fell inside my fence:

Looking closer, I found one of my Dypsis sp. bejouf looking like this:

Fortunately, the palm is mainly flat at this point of its development, and looked relatively undamaged after I removed the wood pieces. Elsewhere, a limb came down on my Pinanga kuhlii:

One of my Syagrus pseudococcus was partly uprooted by a limb of my northern neighbor's weed tree:

I was not happy seeing my specimen of a rare Pritchardia species damaged. It will recover, but is set back for a while:

Here, the storm took down three weed trees on my property, an albizia (note cracked trunk) and two Melochias. I was planning to cut these - the storm has partly saved me the trouble;

Finally, the storm uprooted one of my vireyas right outside the house:

Some work will be needed, but overall, my palms came through like champs.

 

Edited December 9, 2021 by mike in kurtistown
correcting grammer

[John hovancsek]

I still don’t have power and am going nuts. Some of my palms that are still young have a lean but I think they will correct themselves 

[Cindy Adair]

I am so very sorry for all of you after this terrible event.
 

Thinking of you as you try to recover.

[Brad52]

Mike sorry to see that, having just seen it undamaged!  As usual, way less rain down my way, and no real wind damage.