Don Sanborn's Blog: First Big storm in 30 years this weekend

Saturday, August 21, 2021

First Big storm in 30 years this weekend

First Big storm in 30 years this weekend

The remains of FRED are gone, we got a ton of rain, any worries of a fall drought are gone. HENRI is a hurricane now, is due to hit us Sunday into Monday. Power is sure to be an issue as the ground here is completely saturated.

New Hampshire may see its first hurricane in three decades starting Sunday, with extremely high storm surge along the coast and heavy rainfall inland the immediate concern, along with high winds and even the possibility of some tornadoes spinning up.

The region’s electric utilities have cautioned customers to be prepared for outages.

We're in full prep mode Saturday, lots to go over, garden beans need added guy wires should we get the predicted 40-60 mph winds, etc. Securing the Cabana. Generator prepped, phones charged, cars in a safe spot, we always have plenty of flashlights, lol.

We lost all of our tomato plants years ago due to a bad storm, it literally laid down every tomato plant we had in the garden even though they were caged, now we put in 6' & 8' Fence posts to hold up the tomatoes. We still picked some tomatoes, but we lost a lot too.

Are you ready for the coming storm?

Roses Zinnia bed looks amazing and the bees seem to love it, we'll grow these again next year.

Dad's Plum tree, just WOW!

Yes they are small 1-1.5" around, but wow what a crop, you can see some are split open, I assume due to water, and maybe the heat.

Garden Update:

Certainly a weird year weather wise. I think we'd be is better shape if we could get some Sun this year...

The garden is starting to look a little haggard.

Our Tomatoes are FINALLY Starting to come in. Just the canning ROMA variety so far, you can see them just ripening up. All of my fine eatin' tomatoes still have a ways to go before we're picking them.