Jeez, Jim, you should buy a lottery ticket.

Far less damage than I thought there'd be.

I would've had my heart in my throat opening it up and looking inside.

Can you patch the small holes so accumulated heat won't escape?
Another tarp over the top to provide an airspace between the two covers?

Chin up, buddy.

That sucks, I hope everything comes back good this spring. :thumbup:

Thanks

Luckily there were a few things in there that kept it from bottoming out to bad-
the space heater 😯 ,the Yucca 😯 and what was left of the Yew 😀 -
that I originally cut down to make the whole dealeo!

Really happy the big Yucca is not snapped,I guess I didn't load the picture of
it with it's(and it's babies)spears poking out of the plastic,it looks like the
spear is intact -I think it would have rotted had it stayed as it was.

All in all I was very fortunate-I will take another look around in there today
and patch a few rips in the plastic-if accuweather is to be believed(it's not but I can hope 😀 )
after some cold weather mid-week,we are well in to the 40s to near 50(F) in the 15 day!

We'll see about that!

Would be nice though!

Wow Jim, at first glance it looked bad, but looking inside, it doesnt look to bad at all ( concidering how much snow was on there).

I couldnt tell much from the pics, but it didnt seem like you had any support for the cage, just a few to connect the mesh? I wouldve bought 3 large pieces of rebar, and put one at each end, and one in the middle like ribs. Snow weighs 15 pounds per cubic foot. Im horrible at math, so ill spare the calculations LOL. 10 cubic feet would be 150 pounds?

You also have to take into account the snow drifts that end up forming around your greenhouse because one side could have double the amount of wind packed snow on it, then what fell. I would reinforce the greenhouse you have now with "ribs" of strong steel, iron ( or bamboo??) Then mabey some running long ways, to reinforce the sides. Barb was close too when she mentioned a stick or something, to brace the middle, and mabey near the walls on the inside to support it?

Im not a construction worker or anything, but ive built tons of things with my dad when I was younger.

Im sure things will work out better then expected in the spring 😀

Yippee to the old yew...

Glad it's milder for you now.
Another blast is coming Tuesday for the previously hard-hit areas.

Look at these charts (bottom of page) for the week ending February 16
http://members3.boardhost.com/HardyPalm/msg/1296819424.html

It'll give folks some time to prepare.

Barb

That map is scary, but all the forecasts I am seeing call for me to stay in the low single digits from it vs. the -10 oF that map threatens.
My favorite part of that thread is the Alabama igloo. We're out making an okie igloo right now. --Erik

Alabama igloo

Quite the feat!

Could see only 2 palms, not the third.
Maybe it was inside the igloo... 😆

I'll post photos of the Okie igloo later. It won't be that big, and it is in my (failed) bamboo garden vs. by the palms but still a fun excuse to be outside in the delightful weather right now: sunny and warm 😆
Maybe Jim could build igloos over some of his palm shelters before the next cold front hits.

I was fresh out of sticks when I built it 😀

If the A-hole who built it would have shoveled the
snow off like he is supposed to this would have been avoided-

he had other fish to fry. 🙄