The fog really emphasized the damage my hundred year old trees ended up with from Beryl last summer. The past two decades have seen the once awesome canopy over my front yard shredded. From Ike in 2008 thru Beryl in 2024 the number of very large limbs that have come down is amazing. Not to discount the two whole trees we lost in Ike.

When we moved out here the tree canopy was so full that our old house received almost no direct sun from spring to fall. It played hell on the paint job but made the house amazingly more comfortable considering it’s lack of basic insulation. But you know… Texas gulf coast in the ’30’s… Who needed (installed) insulation.

What was also highlighted was the fact that we are very lucky we built the new house back behind the trees in 2010. Ever since then we have watched very large, heavy branches fall where our old farmhouse once stood. Between drought stress and high winds there have been more than six occasions in the past decade that our old house would have had major damage…

Images From Hurricane Beryl