Big Wind

/ ziegelbaur

There was a big wind that blew through here. No, I’m not talking about political candidates.

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Broken tree and palm branches down after a strong windy storm

 

As rainy season comes to a close (usually in the month of November) we never know when we’ll have that last blast of a storm. Well, it wasn’t the last of the season, but we did have high winds and hard rain that blew down 6 years of growth in some of our fruit trees around campus.

Just a week earlier a rainstorm blew this jackfruit tree over near the garage.

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Heavy with jackfruits, this tree blew over one afternoon during a storm.

And we just lost another jackfruit – one next to the wall by the garage.

The wind split this one in 2
The wind split this one in 2

The greatest loss was an inga tree next to the soccer field.

Just a couple months earlier this tree had provided shade, fruit and a lace for kids to climb.
Just a couple months earlier this tree had provided shade, fruit and a place for kids to climb during the soccer tournament.
Suddenly one night it blew down -- apparently it was diseased so had a poor root system, unable to hold in the wind.
Suddenly one night it blew down — apparently it was diseased so had a poor root system, unable to hold in the wind.

We also lost a lot of banana plants

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In the Prayer Garden this lovely cyprus tree blew down. We tried to prop itup but every time it rained it just blew over again.

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In the end one of our teachers decided to cut it to the right size and took it home for a Christmas tree!

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