View Full Version : Huricane Warning in Texas
Ronnie Elliott
09-21-2005, 04:31 PM
We live 180 miles inland in East Texas. The winds will be from 50-75 mph, with much needed rain. What can I do to protect my hives from the possible wind damage? I have the hives 13-inches off the ground, on screen bottom racks. I have 2-deeps, & 2-shallows high.
Cyndi
09-21-2005, 05:15 PM
What about strapping them down??
You should be ok, especially if you have any wind break at all. We get 70 MPH burst off thunderstorms pretty often. The hives should be well glued together by now. Set a concrete chunk on them for insurance.
Ross is right. Just put a cement block on top. My girls withstood the 90 and better winds of Ophelia here on the coast. Heck with Isabel 2 years ago, they were submerged 6" in tidal surge even though they are on 20" stands. The girls just moved up in the hive until the waters receded then went back down and cleaned the mess up.
King bee apiary
09-21-2005, 09:09 PM
When Ivan came through Alabama,(central)we had some 70-80 mph gust.I used those rachet straps on mine.At least if they did blow over maybe they would stay togetherand not be destroyed altogether..Well the hives never moved,maybe I was just lucky or maybe they worked..
Something else you may think about is reduceing the entrance,a buddy of mine in PC,Florida had his bees sucked right out of the hives.
jm2cents.
tecumseh
09-21-2005, 10:11 PM
old Rita has set her sights directly on tecumseh. like forrest gump and captain dan we shall just have to ride the storm out.
nailing down lids, pulling some hive down a super or so, praying.
SantaCruzBee
09-22-2005, 04:09 AM
Good luck, tecumseh, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. I have friends in Corpus Christi who're leaving there this morning.
tecumseh
09-23-2005, 05:03 AM
thanks for the kind though SantaCruz...
everyone about me seems to be in panic mode. the tanks at the gas stations are empty, the grocery store shelves are stripped of product. such is the consequence when you sell the consumptive public on a steady diet of fear, fear, fear. you quietly say boo... and half the population of texas moves over 6 counties.
hope your friends in Corpus missed the traffic jam. we had reports yesterday that some folks that fled Houston took 8 hours to make the 100+mile trip.
iddee
09-23-2005, 11:32 AM
Tecumseh, batten down and look upward.
My hopes and prayers are with you.
Hillside
09-23-2005, 01:52 PM
tecumseh,
Do you find that the stores, gas stations, and such are open for business, or have the owners locked up and fled? If I owned a gas station and there was a real need to evacuate, I would feel a duty to stay long enough for my customers to get the fuel that they needed, but I would still want to get out early enough for my own, and my family's safety.
If I drive into the city during a normal rush hour it's a mess. I can't imagine EVERYONE trying to get out in one direction all at once. I'm don't think it's even possible.
tecumseh
09-24-2005, 05:36 AM
hillside ask:
Do you find that the stores, gas stations, and such are open for business, or have the owners locked up and fled?
tecumseh replies:
most of the gas station business owers (heavily pakistani's) seem to have stayed the course until all the gas was gone and only at the very last moment boarded up their stores and proceeded to take care of their own safety. our problem seems to have been that everyone decided to leave at the first warning, which I believe is a bit of an over reaction to the New Orleans mess.
tecumseh
09-24-2005, 05:38 AM
oh yea...
thanks for thinking (and prayers are a nice plus also) about olde tecumseh...
iddee
09-24-2005, 06:19 AM
Glad to see your early morning posts. I hope that means you made it through the worse part.
tecumseh
09-24-2005, 07:39 AM
just a bit of rain (we need more of that stuff} and wind iddee. and the wind was no stronger than you might expect on the texas highplains on any given summer day. I suspect tomorrow there will be a lot of folks, who consumed a lot of funds and time fleeing Houston and Galveston, that will be feeling very foolish. given that this type of decision is made with less than perfect knowledge I personally can understand their decision, but I also understand how expectation play out in regards to how you feel about any given decision. my one hope is this episode of 'crying wolf' will not impede the proper course of action in regards to the next storm.