Ike and the Plants

Some additional Ike damage pictures that we thought were cool included what happened to the plants during the storm. I mentioned in the last post that the pecan tree looked a little light in the leaf department, well, this happened to any plant that had leaves sticking up into the wind. The wind literally shredded or ripped the leaves off of the plants.

Here are a couple of shots of the pecan tree. If you blow them up you can see how most of the leaves look like they've been half eaten by bugs. This was the shredding by the wind. You'll also notice the distinct lack of pecans on the tree. They ended up coating the driveway and front yard. Too early for us to find them tasty, but the squirrels still like them.

Moving to the side yard, the climbing rose was totally stripped of its leaves on the branches that reach up into the sky.In the backyard, the same thing happened to the bougainvillea. The leaves from the bougainvillea ended up coating the back of the house. Looking out the back windows was like looking through polka dotted windows, and the walls looked like they had a tan and green polka dotted paint scheme.In the end, God protected us from major damage, for which we are grateful. Other than the pictures on this and previous post, we lost some shingles and took some water damage inside the house, plus we lost a few of the garden plants. Not too bad considering what could have happened. In the neighborhood just across the freeway from us, a lot of their trees dropped onto the houses.