I forgot to mention that the tulips performed surprisingly well. Not great, but better than I had expected. Many of the red oak spp were hit hard; there are not many white oak spp in town to say much of anything. The pines, white pitch, etc, performed pretty poorly.
neil On Feb 28, 7:58 pm, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > Neil and ENTS, > Thanks for the report and the pictures. > When I was a kid (before 6th grade when I was put in a Christian school), I > remember riding the school bus to school one morning after an ice storm. All > white birches (gray birch) in the entire area were bent over to the ground. > On one particular road between our house and the school, there were birches > on both sides of the road. They were all bent over, nearly meeting in the > middle of the road, and therefore the road was blocked. When we got to these > trees in the school bus, the driver turned the bus around and found an > alternate route. As she was turning the bus around one of the other kids > yelled "Go through it!", but she said that she couldn't do that because it > would ruin the trees. > To my knowledge, not a one of them broke, and all sprung back up to the way > they were, later on. I have quite a vivid memory of this, even though it was > only during one of my first 6 years in school. > Barry > P.S.- In my experience, around here the trees that are most susceptible to > breakage under the weight of snow are tuliptrees and white pines. Any > tuliptrees and white pines in the area always lose large branches during a > heavy snowstorm or an ice storm. Other species always fare much better. > > --- On Sat, 2/28/09, neil <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: neil <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENTS] re: January Weather in Review > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 8:20 AM > > Hi ENTS, > > Although this is technically February [and essentially March], I wanted > to share some images from the KY Ice Storm from the last week of January > '09. I hadn't experienced an ice storm as severe as this one and it was > > fun listening to and seeing how different trees responded to the ice. I > will not forget the persimmon next to my kitchen window just pop all > night on the 27th and rain branches down onto my roof or side of the > house. I left town when my power went out on the 28th and missed the > next few days. My 89.8 yr old neighbor told me the real damage to the > trees would come after the ice melted and the trees snapped back. There > did seem to be more damage when I returned to town. > > The silver maples were hit hard. But looking at the before and after > pictures, it is amazing to see how many feet the outer branches sagged > and sprung back. > > Some red maples were completely smashed, like this one on campus. > > The river birches next to the library were waylaid! It was pretty in > the middle of them. They have since been cut. > > I made it out to central Kentucky and Mammoth Caves the last couple of > days. I didn't make it into Big Woods yet to see how much damaged it > might have experienced - hope to visit in the fall. The ice damage to > portions of Central KY that I saw were something. Mammoth Caves Nat. > Park lost power for a few days, too. > > The cedars and pines took it real hard. Angiosperms were hit fairly > hard as well, but seemed to be less disturbed. These pictures are the > worst. Most of the forest, like those in the bottom of the Green River > watershed seemed to have less damage. > > Wish there was time to do a species review of damage. Would be very > interesting. > > neil --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
