IrishRob17

I have a white birch that's about 10 years old and for several years the leaves would turn yellow by late June and they would drop in August. After trying various things over the years thinking it was something on the leaves this season after taking a closer look at the soil I figured out it appears to have been an iron deficiency. The tree has responded very well to iron treatments and with that has come some decent growth. Then last week I had a birch bending downpour, the top third of the tree was leaning pretty good. I tied it up to straighten it as much as I could for a few days, with success. Then had another downpour Saturday and the top quarter of the tree is leaning the other way, LOL.

I bought a 6-7' Autumn Blaze Red Maple from them last May, Dendrite, you may have actually mentioned this site to me here. Anyway, I would buy from them again in a heartbeat. The tree I got was nice and full. I got solid new growth on it last season and its nice and full this year.

.01 overnight here

Yesterday’s total was 1.04”, the Davis was clogged so my reading comes from the Stratus. That said, the storm that just blew through here was way heavier than anything I say yesterday. Small branch’s and twigs all over the yard, eggplant, peppers, and zuc took a beating, the bride ain’t happy. .54” which fell in 10-15 minutes, the birch is now leaning the other way, I can’t win.

.76”

.40 here

I’ll be surprised if I break 1”

You must be chuckling a bit to yourself with the way folks are getting "crushed" today...how quickly did you get to the 3.53" again?

My mother in New Windsor has 3.9" in her non-Davis, an impressive dump over that way.

To be fair, that intersection has had flash flooding issues for decades, no disrespect to the deluge today though. I remember in the great '93--'94 winter that intersection flooded during the storm around 1/17 when it dumped snow in the morning, 6-8" as I recall, before a warm front blasted through changing it to rain. That evening the arctic front came through causing not only a change back to snow but a flash freeze that left roads more or less undriveable for a good week. Anyway, when it changed to rain that intersection was under water, not as bad as today but bad enough.

From the Orange and Rockland County Fire page

Just saw a photo of the exit ramp from 84 to 9W in Newburgh, cars underwater, not good.

Get tracks like that in 6 months and have @wdrag starting new threat threads every few days...oh how we pray

It was NW and W of me, I only picked up .10 yesterday.

They should be.

A real Birch Bender here yesterday, that’s the leader still flopping to the left. The branch that looks like the leader was also flopping over to the left this morning so it’s starting to straighten out again.

I believe it, I’m 2 miles as the crow flies from KMGJ and I’ve seen over an inch difference between here and there.

That’s a great illustration of how different rainfall totals can be over a short distance, especially with thunderstorms.

Now much in your bucket?

.58” total on the day, lost power about 90 minutes ago, part of a decent sized outage ...really hoping I don’t need to fire up the generator but this is the reason I have one, we’ll see.

My oldest son works downtown, before COVID-19 hit he would spend close to two hours each way taking the train out of Campbell Hall and then the Path from Hoboken. Even with the coin he makes that commute everyday is not for me. That said, he's been working from a private beach house in SC since the end of March and who knows what the future is as far as remote working for those who can.

How’d the quotes go?

Only picked up .09 with the second cell

Rather loud thunder here with plenty of lightning bolts as the next cell approaches.