Re: MR-Banter: Fran

["Sallie Montuori, aka Alys of Foxdale" <foxdale@wolfstar.com>]

Poster: "Sallie Montuori, aka Alys of Foxdale" <foxdale@wolfstar.com>

> Poster: Dave Montuori <damont@wolfstar.com>
> 
> NWS reports that Fran's center passed over Citadel of the Four Winds,
> western Isenfir, and Shendale. Friends report that Harrisonburg was NOT a
> fun place to be today.
> 
> What I'd been worried about was an "Agnes track" -- heading over Richmond
> and then due north up the Chesapeake Bay into the Susquehanna or Potomac
> valleys. *That* would have been *REALLY* nasty for us, esp. the latter.
> 
> Evan, also waterlogged

I remember Agnes!  We lost an ancient walnut tree, a good 3-1/2 feet
in diameter, that smashed an outbuilding flat!  The funny thing was, I
slept through the whole thing -- high winds, torrential downpour, the
tree crashing down, the works!  I just woke up and it was a lot wetter
out than it had been the night before, and the tree was down.  There
was an enormous hole where the roots had been!  Real old-timers may
also remember Hazel from back in the fifties -- that one did some
serious damage up here too; folks compared and contrasted Agnes to
Hazel.

Fortunately, here in northeastern Stierbach today, Evan and Alys have
lost only one half of one small tree beside the back fence, instead of
either of the 30-foot shallow-rooted silver maples that would have
smashed the house!  (Yes, it did fall in that direction -- whew!)

No, we didn't have to have Fran go right over top of us to make us
thankful for what we have left!  (Hey, maybe next year we'll have sun
enough in the backyard to garden there instead of only in the front!)

   Alys of Foxdale        | Vert, on a fess between three trees
foxdale@wolfstar.com      |     argent, a fox passant gules.


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