Hurricane Bill is going to give us a slap!!!

[Tree Machine]

Hi Bermie. It is Thursday, August 20. Actually, in 4 minutes it's Friday the 21st

Here's a picture of what it looks like out in your neck of the woods.....

 

[Tree Machine]

Pretty frickin amazing.

 

[oldirty]

good luck with that thing bermie!

 

[Tree Machine]

Friday 8:30 am. Y'all see that little white dot in the ocean, directly north of the eye of the hurricane? That's Bermie.

 

[Sunrise Guy]

Bermie, Come in Bermie----

Are you OK?

 

[treeseer]

the eye is well south of bermie but she will still be lashed. I kinda wish that H was not pushing it out to sea--it was heading right for NC otherwise--would have been interesting to see what stands up to the storm, and how...

I'm going to Hatteras Sunday--Surf's Up! No board, just body, and the waves should be <10' by then, so rideable, I hope...

Yeehah!

Bermie, hang in there!

 

[Bermie]

Hi everyone...

Yes, all is well, its gusty and raining, we are not expecting much more than 65/70 knots...probably just enough to knock some branches down. The surge in the bay where I live has to be seen to be believed...every time a storm goes by the water rushes in and out so fast and strong you cannot leave a boat tied to the dock, the water goes 2-3' over the dock and then down to dry bottom all within a minute!

I was up my trees this morning knocking a few tops out, got one tree that just takes a licking every time, Fiddlewood, very brittle, it looks awful but my hubby wrote a poem about it so I can't cut it down!

Yesterday was glass calm, got the 100' Norfolk Pine down, I'll post a thread, got some good pictures.

The worst of the wind will be at about 4am Saturday when Bill will be about 171nm to the WSW, hopefully I will be fast asleep!

 

[Boa07]

Glad to hear all is well with you and yours

Your fiddlewood....Citharexylum spinosum? like ours in SE Qld, or C. quadrangulare? Either way guess there is not much difference they are very brittle when in exposed positions here too. Not a great favourite of mine but quite an attractive tree if never damaged by nature or man.

 

[Bermie]

Glad to hear all is well with you and yours

Your fiddlewood....Citharexylum spinosum? like ours in SE Qld, or C. quadrangulare? Either way guess there is not much difference they are very brittle when in exposed positions here too. Not a great favourite of mine but quite an attractive tree if never damaged by nature or man.

Wind is picking now, lightning and thunder, heavy rain squalls...

Our Fiddlewood is spinosum very attractive in the spring when they turn colours, this spring they were amazing as we had such a drought. Very snappy though.

 

[Ed Roland]

Hang on tight Bermie!

I just walked up to the beach and the swells are pumpin! Guests arriving later tonight for this epic event. Will be getting up early to get the boards in the water. Southern NC rarely sees this kind of clean swell.

 

[Bermie]

The worst is over...peak gusts to 85knots...nothing but leaves down where I live, no frantic phone calls....well one, a friend asked the landscapers to 'cut back their tree a little' before the storm, seems they massacred it and want me to render my opinion on what's been done and what to do now...

Unfortunately very typical, unskilled imported labour, landscapers being asked to do things for which they have NO skills or knowledge, the HO can tell that the work is wrong, met with a shrug and an 'oopps they made a mistake'...we'll see what happens.

 

[treeseer]

Thanks Bermie; glad you are well.

It'd be interesting to see what restoration can be done to the hacked tree.

 

[Boa07]

The worst is over...peak gusts to 85knots...nothing but leaves down where I live, no frantic phone calls

Glad you had no damage, or injuries.