Re: RE: RE: Yet another hurricane story

After the Agnes flood in '72, I've got a very healthy respect for the power of water.  It's amazing what it can do.

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Bonnie & Bill Morgan
Sent: 8/24/2004 9:56:49 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: RE: RE: [CHAT] Yet another hurricane story

> No doubt your exactly right, Pam.  We've had high water in different places
> where we've lived, but it seems that nearly every house has been on or very
> near a hill top, so we hadn't seen that sort of occurrence from our own
> experience in Indy or Ohio.
> 
> Still, that's a LOT of POWER!  Whether wind-borne or water-borne to blow or
> float enough debris into all those little opening  with sufficient force to
> topple it is pretty amazing!
> 
> Blessings,
> Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5) 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
> Of gardenqueen@academicplanet.com
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:46 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: RE: [CHAT] Yet another hurricane story
> 
> With the flooding from the storm, it could have picked up enough leaves,
> branches and assorted trash to fill in most of those spaces to cause it
> to topple over. Once down, the flotsam & jetsam would wash away and
> you'd never know. I've seen how the leaves and such pile up at my chain
> link gate during a deluge.
> 
> 
> Pam Evans
> Kemp, TX
> zone 8A
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Donna
> Sent: 8/24/2004 8:54:51 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Yet another hurricane story
> 
> > Wondered if they had those .... yipes what do you call them-- strips to
> > make them more private laced between the chain links.
> > 
> > Donna
> > 
> > > 
> > > That is something to ponder.  Beyond the posts and rails, it's mostly
> > > airspace between wire.  WOW!  Now that's powerful, Jim!
> > > 
> > > Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
> > > 
> > > One of our crew chiefs told me today that he saw where a 4-foot chain
> > > link fence, not near any trees or large bushes, had been blown over by
> > > Charley. He said: "How much resistance can a chain link fence
> > provide?"
> > > 
> > > Island Jim
> > 
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