I have peeps in the Mo City/Sugar Land area with power out and fences down. Centerpoint is slowly starting to fix stuff from what I'm seeing. I don't see any cool maps on their site showing outages and status, but there's a running total : https://gisoutagetracker.azurewebsites.net/
Messaged my folks: Broken trees, giant front door somehow broke and a baby eagle with an injured wing we will try to rehabilitate @CCorn you doing alright?
We have a power line laying along side our yard in the easement. Would you believe it if I told you that Centerpoint's emergency line is down?
Had a small tree get uprooted, and fall against my house. Luckily small enough that only the taller branches made most of the contact and chipped only shingles and now just resting on brick wall. Would have been more troublesome if it fell on recently replaced fence.
This turned out much worse than I expected. The length of the power is outage will determine how I remember this.
CenterPoint’s Outage Tracker, a map of the Houston metro area that highlights areas affected by electrical outages, has been offline since May due to “technical difficulties” caused by the derecho that swept through Harris County that month, CenterPoint officials said. https://houstonlanding.org/centerpo...wn-heres-where-to-find-more-electricity-info/
It should bounce back, just may not look too pretty for a while. Pecans shed limbs constantly and get over it. Later this summer make sure it gets watered and some fertilizer around the tree-line is probably not a bad idea. I don't know what kind of bugs/fungi/etc are problems in the Houston area, though, and fresh breaks are an easy way for those to take hold. Somebody local would be your best source of info.
Everything you can think of. Three of our 2- to 3-year-old fruit trees were halfway uprooted. I don't think the roots broke, but they were at a 30-degree angle to the ground—almost flat. I straightened them up and filled in with new soil. Not sure if that’s the right way. I hope they survive.
You may want put a stake or 2 in the ground and run some rope to keep them from falling back over until the roots take hold again (pieces of old garden hose with the rope run through it is great for keeping it from cutting into the bark/trunk) Yall find a great local plant nursery (Cornelius was our go-to back in the day, hope it's still around), or call these guys with questions: https://agrilifeextension.tamu.edu/counties/harris-county/
Alief represent, no power, inside house 77 degrees. Beef jerky and bacon bits for lunch. Played my retro analogue super Mario bros 3 on 88% battery power. 60% battery power on all mobile devices currently at 2:57 pm. Should I evacuate to To Katy? Oh got stung by a wasp twice, arm/leg while checking outside breaker.
