Hurricane Ike

Hurricane Ike

Hurricane Ike came thru here September 13, 2008 as a tropical storm. It was very windy. Two of our favorite stand in the shade trees are ruined. The near 90 foot tall Pine tree is layed over on the ground it’s roots looking like a big plate of spaghetti falling off the table. The human girl says the good news is that the top of it fell right onto the wild life refuge so there will be less clean up. The storm also took the top off the beautiful old Black Walnut tree. Now that is going to be a real mess to clean up that’s for sure.

There are some Cedar trees that lost some branches and some of the very over grown Privet hedges broke in place. Oh and some Chinaberry Tree limbs are broken also. BIG branches broken off those Cedar and Chinaberry trees. The human girl was going to move some of them off our trail this morning. She got one of the Cedar tree branches moved out of the way but the Chinaberry tree branch was just too big for her. She said she needed a pole saw. My horse and I think she needs a crew of men with big machines.

The human man said that he is going to call another human man with the portable sawmill to come make him some lumber boards out of the pine tree and the black walnut tree parts then use the rest for firewood. Not the pine tree parts for firewood just the black walnut.

My horse, Pretty Boy, and I are going to miss the shade from that big Pine Tree. And it will be long while before the Black Walnut is better but at least it is still standing. This is the second storm that tried to take that tree out. The last storm a couple of years ago busted a big hunk of it off on the southeast side. This storm snapped the whole top of it and some on the northwest side. We don’t care what it looks like we are just happy it is standing out there in our front pasture.

No one got hurt and we are thankful for that.