How did Warrenton do in the storm?

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UncleRichie

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Hi,
Just checking to see if everone is ok at Warrenton Mike everbody you guys make it through ok? Hope your not flooded out.
Richard
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No flooding in Warrenton to speak of other than tidelands and wetlands that are supposed to. It takes a lot of water to raise the Columbia River over the banks down here. Now when you hear about one of them Tsunami waves heading my way, that might be a different story.

Astoria was nailed pretty good by the wind. It wasn't that it was so strong so much as it did not let up for two days. You push a tree with 40 mph winds continuously for hours and it doesn't take too many gusts of 50 -70 to knock it down.

The biggest Sitka Spruce in the US at Klootchy Creek Park snapped off. But I can confirm that the tallest Spruce tree on the north side of Spur 104 of Highway 101 Alternate is still standing. Grandma would be happy. That's the tree she made me promise over 30 years ago to never cut down.
 
Reading the news reports about all the highway closures because of blowdowns makes it sound a lot worse than it needed to be. If they (whoever "they" are) hadn't insisted on the "scenic buffer zones" when they let the big outfits clear-cut the forests along the roads this little storm wouldn't have taken down a fraction of what it did. And guess what is strung out on utility poles right through the middle of the beautiful trees??

I had one tree, or half of one, laying across the tractor shed. I got it cut off today and also dropped the other fork that survived. I left the tree standing when I built the shed because it was my favorite to play in when I was a lad. I have a picture of me sitting in the fork of it when I was about 5 years old. The fork is only a few feet from the ground in the pic but is right about level with the shed roof now.
 
Hi Mike,
Glad it wasen't any worse for you, to bad about your tree. The trees up here are a problum to every thing is slowly going under ground . haden't spotted the post from you and was woried so figured I should check. Getting on the site here has been hit or miss mostly miss I don't think billy likes me. Glad everyone is ok.
Richard
 
Wait a minute,
If you stick an ax into a tree and check on it 50 years later, is it out of reach?
Inquiring minds want to know. :smilep

captd
 
captd":1fj9kbfw said:
Wait a minute,
If you stick an ax into a tree and check on it 50 years later, is it out of reach?
Inquiring minds want to know. :smilep

captd
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The ax will always be the same height as when you stuck it in the tree. As trees grow, any height is added to the top as new growth. Limbs will grow longer but at the tip as new growth. Anything below the top or tips of the limbs will only grow bigger in diameter.

So how did the fork of a tree get higher?

Draw a large Y on a piece of paper and make the upper part of the Y have long extensions. Now draw a line following along each side of the Y and then do the same for the inside of the Y. This is new growth on the tree. Don’t touch the Y with the new lines you drew, especially at the bottom of the V. Now do the same thing a few more times and you will notice the fork is getting higher as the tree grows in diameter.
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Dave dlt.gif
 
Reminds me of the time years ago when I was trying to teach a young guy about bearing trees, how to find them and how to recognize the marks when you did find them. I had found one from the 1870's and showed him the tree, but not the mark. He got to looking at it, then said "if they blazed the tree in 1875 that mark has to be waaaaaaay up there". I cracked up, couldn't help myself.
 
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