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too larry

too larry

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Backyard dirt said:
What becomes of all the blowndown trees? Are all salvaged or do they leave some for animal habitat? I'm assuming that it is mostly if not all private property around there?
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A lot of blowdowns will be left. Not so much because of habitat, just that it cost more than it's worth to clean them up. It's too late now to salvage anything. The mills stopped taking downed trees a couple of three months ago. Most of the timber companies cut what they could right away. Smaller land owners like me had to try to get loggers. My cousins had a relationship with the timber broker, and they got their trees, but ran out of time on mine.

I haven't seriously priced what it would take to clear the land. I know its more than I'm willing to pay. The plan for the planted pines behind the house is to wait three years, then burn them. {and hope no one throws out a butt before then}

The last month a lot of the live blow downs are dying. Not sure if it's the dry hot weather, or if they would have died anyway.
 
too larry

too larry

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At 0900 I came in from the garden for a cool down break. It was 91F. An hour and a half ago when I ran to the bank, my car thermometer read 104F when I got in, and never went lower than 99F.

At 1645 it's sunny, 96F with 27% humidity. Forecast high low of 99/71F with 10% chance of rain tonight. 10 day high low of 98/70F with 6 days of possible rain.
 
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Backyard dirt

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too larry said:
A lot of blowdowns will be left. Not so much because of habitat, just that it cost more than it's worth to clean them up. It's too late now to salvage anything. The mills stopped taking downed trees a couple of three months ago. Most of the timber companies cut what they could right away. Smaller land owners like me had to try to get loggers. My cousins had a relationship with the timber broker, and they got their trees, but ran out of time on mine.

I haven't seriously priced what it would take to clear the land. I know its more than I'm willing to pay. The plan for the planted pines behind the house is to wait three years, then burn them. {and hope no one throws out a butt before then}

The last month a lot of the live blow downs are dying. Not sure if it's the dry hot weather, or if they would have died anyway.
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One of the things I do in summer is help clear blowdown from trails in wilderness areas. We use crosscut saws and yes we curse the big 3 footers but it is a good workout and it is satisfying to walk back to the vehicles without having to climb over blowdown. Our blowdown happens in fierce winter storms when nobody is around to witness the carngage.
 
too larry

too larry

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Backyard dirt said:
One of the things I do in summer is help clear blowdown from trails in wilderness areas. We use crosscut saws and yes we curse the big 3 footers but it is a good workout and it is satisfying to walk back to the vehicles without having to climb over blowdown. Our blowdown happens in fierce winter storms when nobody is around to witness the carngage.
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Thanks. Trail maintainers are another form of trail angels in my book. My favorite section of the Florida Trail close to the house has been closed since the hurricane. We had crews one weekend, but they didn't try to cut any of the really big trees. I can see there has been some work at the trailhead, but the closed sign is still in place.

I've been tempted to stop on the way home from work one night and remove the sign. Then when I tell my wife I'm heading over there to camp, and she asks me if it's still closed, I can tell her the sign is gone. lol
 
too larry

too larry

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Another warm one. It was 99F when I came to work a couple hours ago. Clouds have cooled it off since then. At 1645 it's partly cloudy, 92F with 36% humidity. Forecast high low of 98/74F with 30% chance of rain tonight. 10 day high low of 98/68F with 6 days of possible rain.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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It made it into the mid 80s for the first time this year. Still waiting for one of the many little thundershowers in view to float over the house and water my lawn.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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All kidding aside, global warming is going to make for nastier hurricanes from now on.

I saw a projection that starting right about now, higher temps making higher area surface temperatures will add one to the category number of each storm going forward. I have no way of knowing whether that's true but it's a sobering thought.

And in other news, climate change is now responsible for sea level rising at a rate of .2"/year. Ten years ago it was less than .1" and they're looking to see the current rate double in ten years from now.

If you have any neighbors named Noah, you might want to start donating them a few choice buds!
 
too larry

too larry

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ttystikk said:
All kidding aside, global warming is going to make for nastier hurricanes from now on.

I saw a projection that starting right about now, higher temps making higher area surface temperatures will add one to the category number of each storm going forward. I have no way of knowing whether that's true but it's a sobering thought.

And in other news, climate change is now responsible for sea level rising at a rate of .2"/year. Ten years ago it was less than .1" and they're looking to see the current rate double in ten years from now.

If you have any neighbors named Noah, you might want to start donating them a few choice buds!
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In both the Houston and Florida storms they came in over a hot spot in the Gulf. I had read about these hot spots slowly rotating around the Gulf.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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too larry said:
In both the Houston and Florida storms they came in over a hot spot in the Gulf. I had read about these hot spots slowly rotating around the Gulf.
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Those hot spots will keep getting warmer and larger. The other main ingredient in hurricane generation is high level wind shear, the less the better. I haven't seen much about the interaction between climate change and wind shear.
 
too larry

too larry

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Backyard dirt said:
I suppose these hotspots are being closely monitored. How are they shaping up so far?
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Other than seeing that story on weatherunderground, I haven't done any research into them. Like ty said, there are daily temp charts online. With fishing and the beaches such a big deal, the Panama City TV channels all give the Gulf temp, but I never pay attention.

The hotspots were like a big, slow moving eddies. {I forget how wide they were} There are 2-3 in the Gulf most of the time. It takes a couple of years for them to circle the Gulf. They start down by Mexico and Cuba and come up the west coast of Florida, around all the way to Texas and back down to Mexico.

But both Andrew and Micheal blew up at the last minute as they came across really warm water. Bad timing?
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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too larry said:
But both Andrew and Micheal blew up at the last minute as they came across really warm water. Bad timing?
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The warm water is the very thing that gives hurricanes their energy; the warmer the water, the more power those hurricanes generate.

If we could harness the energy in just one major hurricane, we could run the entire country on it.
 
FresnoFarmer

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10:59am ,90 degrees Fahrenheit.
Had to bury my seedling cups, also threw worms in the cups to aerate the soil a bit.. Started showing sigs of heat stress/root rot midday yesterday. Gonna be hotter today. Hopefully they can tough out this 3 day heat wave.20190605_105108.jpg
 
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