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| Dave Banks | profile | all galleries >> gardens... >> Kairaku... >> Ivan... | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
Hurricane Frances came up to Hendersonville in early September 2004 and dropped over a foot of rain. A few weeks later Hurricane Ivan followed, and blew down about 5000 trees in Hendersonville, including a huge oak in our garden which pushed over an even bigger tulip poplar on its way, for several hundred feet of downed trees.
Here are some scenes of the results.
 one of the 33 trees across the road - the one we didn't have to cut |
 along Ransier Drive - bits of the neighbor's tree across the street |
 along Ransier Drive, from the neighbor's tree across the street |
 NC Department of Transportation cleaning up the tree trash |
 NC Department of Transportation cleaning up the tree trash |
 one of the many truckloads of tree trash |
 oak root ball - where the little mounted roots came from |
 looking north along the oak tree |
 32 inch oak on the ground |
 looking north along the oak |
 oak, resting on the tulip poplar root ball |
 middle of the oak, resting on the rootball of the tulip poplar |
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 getting the oak limbs down to the ground |
 oak limbs down, ready to cut |
 looking south, up the tulip poplar, after whittling the oak limbs |
 path across glen looking south - middle of the tulip poplar |
 glen path looking west - tip end of the tulip poplar, reaching almost to our driveway |
 close call for several azaleas |
 close call for 'Inch' |
 help from Larry Austin and his friends, taking firewood to their church friends |
 getting the oak stump back into the ground |
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