We are all interested in citrus and I wondered how my trees would fare. The wind wasn't bad at all but even while Harvey was down around Houston, I was on the wet side of the storm and we wound up getting 30-inches of rain at my house during a 6-day period and I had gotten enough rain before that so the ground was already on the verge of saturation. Perfect setup for all sorts of fungal diseases.

Oddly enough, thankfully, it has been really dry now for about a week and a half and the same in the forecast for the next ten days. I have had some fungal infections and fruit drop on my ripening calamondins but still lots of fruit still in good shape ripening on the tree. My lemons, kumquats, and tangerines are doing fine as they were not even close to being ripe. A few tangerines have dropped in a moldy mush but very few. A non-citrus, the Japanese Plum, has shown the worst root damage and I have a couple of young plants that look like they are dying....leaves drooping and browning out. I have a small blood orange that actually looks like it appreciated being drenched and it's putting out lots of new growth...and it needed some more leaves!

Here are the pics

Calamondin fruit drop..really quite minor

The blood orange with new sprouts

Green Kumquats

Meyer Lemon looking VERY good, even in a low part of my yard

Persian Sweet Limes still looking good.....even if they are tasteless!

Ponderosa lemons also doing fine...and some had root zones in standing water for several days

And, lastly, the tangerine. I placed a 4"X4" overhead and am supporting some heavy branches with webbing. The raised bed border acted as a dam and held water for several days but the tree is still looking good. Looks like I will also be getting another crop of ginger root this year....tall grassy leaves

John, thank goodness you are ok. Thoughts and prayers to you and your fellow Texans as all work to rebuild.

John, Glad to hear you are ok. My house was destroyed in Sandy so I sympathize with what Texans are going through and all they will have to go through for months and years. I still have not been able to rebuild yet. I send my prayers to everyone in need.

Cory

Thanks for the update, John

Happy to share the update. I am just now slowing down to pull the photos together. I also happen to be grounded from doing too much now since I sliced a big gash in a finger yesterday trying to clean out some old roof goop so I could repair a place that leaked....should I skip the cut finger photo?

skip the photo; but know that we care

LOL! Good call! It was a dumb bad luck accident....locking blade knife...blade came unlocked and that's all it took.

John, glad you are ok. We lived in Silsbee for several years before moving to NM still have our 20 acres along the Neches south of Evadale. Very high spot.

friends home was flooded in Vidor.

hope your trees survive.

Yes skip th photo.

keep us updated on your area. Seems the media has forgotten you.

be safe

jo

Jo, thanks for the note and sorry about your friend in Vidor. Lots of areas flooded this time that have never flooded in recorded (?...at least in over 100 years) history. Village Creek in Lumberton had 100,000 cfs of flow at its peak.....that's a LOT of water for a creek. We are used to being ignored by the media....when Hurricane Rita hit here, the media reported it was a good thing it came here since it was a rural area and not as much damage would be done...guess they never heard or Beaumont, Port Arthur, Port Neches, Bridge City, Orange, Nederland, Vidor, Lumberton, etc......carefully resisting the urge to climb up on that handy soap box there.......ok, I think I'm ok now :>)

Thank you John for the updates! Glad to hear that you are ok, my heart and prayers go to those who are suffering the losses and hurting. Good to see your garden dry and your trees doing fine.

Thanks, friends are old folks like us. Trying to sell their home to move in with daughter. Heartbreaking for them but I know a lot of people lost everything.

Rita was bad too took down out 75-100 yr old trees. We saw the ruined forests a yr later and blue roofs everywhere.

heard one bridge between Beaumont and Silsbee was damaged.

has Beaumont got there water back? I cannot imagine what Houston is like now.

be safe.

Get back on your soapbox if you need. We will listen.

we in NM, west of ABQ, had one good snowfall last winter and no real rain since then. I'm not good at living in the desert.

jo