Re: thanks Jim ! n/t
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Chris in Tampa on 1/20/2010, 6:21 pm
According to my dad, the best thing to do with all plants that suffer due to the freeze is to do nothing. That is what we are doing. (Maybe the plant having to heal any cut you make to it is worse.) We live in a deed restricted community, but since everyone has dead things, they can't say much. (We may have lost some of our biggest trees. The leaves are falling off like a light rain.)
We had a group of one type of palm tree, next to the water even, that may have died. (the bad thing was the water was around the coldest ever recorded so it didn't help provide much warmth) They are getting browner and browner. We have a bunch of plants and trees that looked pretty good after the freeze but are now showing a lot of damage. I might show pictures in a week or two.
Sadly there was a lot of impact to the lizard population. We had a massive amount of lizards in our yard. I only saw one alive (and it could have been something else I saw out of the corner of my eye) in the many times I have been outside looking at the yard since the freeze. Previously seeing a dozen while I walked outside for a few minutes was not uncommon. It was not just the freeze killing them, I think it killed their food supply too. And of course the tropical fish industry here was devastated along with dead fish in the water. Some types of fish they are not allowing to be caught right now to let the population rebound some. And from seeing the news during the freeze some turtles also didn't survive due to the cold.
And of course the sink holes keep opening up inland near the farms. And they are still assessing the damage to the crops around the area. Luckily it is nice and warm now. |
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