Yikes...I'm sooo glad I haven't planted my tomatoes yet. Just haven't trusted the weather around here (OKC) and something Dawn said in one of her posts about it being better to wait has made me put it off...so thanks Dawn! I hope your plants make it through the wind okay!

Cindy

Had wind go through my place but it was stronger than 30 or 40. According to what my Mom saw on the news we had gusts of 65 mph. All I know is that I had to use both hands to wrestle the doors when I entered or left my house. My seed flats were sitting up against the house itself so they came through OK ... a little battered but not bad. The kiwi, on the other hand, look like someone beat them against a wall.

Brian

Brian,

I knew you must be getting it worse than we did because a High Wind Warning popped up for your part of the state.

Oddly, it moved from county to county here, but not in a necessarily logical sequence--just whenever the pressure gradient got really out of whack in a particular area, the wind surged for a while in that county.

My husband called me here an hour or more after it arrived here and said it arrived at Dallas the same time he did and was blowing so hard he could hardly get the car door open.

It was just an odd little phenomenon. I didn't look at the wind gust map late last night or early this morning, but at one point I saw gusts of at least the 50s and maybe the 60s in some places.

That poor kiwi--what has it done to deserve the abuse? The tomato plants at both ends of the row are really beat up and may have to be replaced (of course I have back-ups for each plant that is in the ground), but the ones in the
middle of the row are fine.

Dawn