mkellerm

We are stuck in our neighborhood near Annapolis. There is a tree across our street with a diameter of about 2 feet blocking the road. The county won’t be able to get to it for a while, since the main road into our subdivision is also blocked by trees. A little further down, there is now what looks like an alley through the woods where all of the trees have been knocked down. In our back yard, a 120-foot tall tulip poplar blew down. The rootball is about four feet taller than I am.

The storm that just came through Annapolis was pretty intense. BGE says 22,000 without power in Anne Arundel County. We had lights flickering for about 10 minutes.

Same thing here in Parole. It was a bit hard to measure due to the drifting. Sleet is definitely accumulating - there is a nice layer on top of the sled track that we made this morning.

1/28-1/29: 3.5 Total: 17.8

Finished with 3.5 inches in Annapolis.

Just hit 2" in Annapolis as of 11pm. Beautiful out, and the snow is very crunchy.

Yes, visibility is about .5 mi here right now.

A few flurries reaching the ground at the Bay Bridge. 36 degrees.

1/3: 9.8 1/7: 3.0 1/16: 1.5 Total: 14.3

Definitely graupel in Annapolis as well - looks like little pebbles on the top of the car.

The bay is definitely coming up in Annapolis. The peak is supposed to be a foot and a half higher than this at midnight tonight.

Someone set up a website to scrape pharmacy websites for appointments in (more or less) real time. It also has a nice map showing availability across the state: COVID-19 Vaccine Spotter Some of the pharmacies work better with it than others (it is very good for Walmart and Walgreens, less so for Safeway), but it can point you in the right direction (which in this case is the Eastern Shore).

Has anyone had any luck growing rhubarb east of 95? I’d like to grow some but it doesn’t like hot and humid summers. Wondering if it is worth trying.

If those are tomatoes and peppers I would definitely cover them at night when it is expected to get below 40 - they don't like getting cold. If it is going to get closer to 32, you might think about putting some warm water in old milk jugs or something similar and putting the jugs near the plants under the cover at night. If it is sunny/warm during the day you can leave the jugs out there when you take the cover off in the morning and let them heat up so they'll be ready to go in the evening again. The good news is that if the peppers make it, some time in cool weather should make the plants more productive when it warms up. Don't think that works for tomatoes though.

I would definitely do that, and any time you get a clean exposed cut, hit the rhizome with roundup as well. At our place, when there was an exposed section of rhizome above the ground, we'd cut out a section and roundup both sides. The other thing about this strategy is that the dead stumps and rhizomes take a long time to decay. I tweaked my ankle more than once working on the hill when I stepped on one of those stumps without looking.

We had bamboo at our old house, which had spread along a steep slope from neighbors two doors down. The slope was steep enough that we couldn't use machinery to dig out the rhizomes. What worked for us was to cut down the stalks at the base, then brush full-strength roundup on the stump with a paintbrush. Then, every time it sent up a new stalk, we waited for it to get to full height in order to use up as much of the stored food in the rhizomes as possible, then cut it right before the leaves opened and repeated the roundup treatment. We couldn't eradicate it because a lot of it was not on our property, but we were able to hold it back effectively.

Nice hailstorm just outside of Annapolis near the mall.