Big Winds

The news for today and last night is, high winds.  In elevations above 900 feet, the winds were gusting up to 68 mph.  These winds caused the death of 2 people, one was electrocuted by a downed power line and the other was killed by a falling tree branch.  

You could hear limbs cracking and sirens going off all night.  Winds so strong they cleared old palm tree fronds off the incredibly tall palm trees around the corner from my house and made a huge mess of the streets.  All the people driving their Prius's were definitely irritated.   Their cars sit so low to the ground, it seemed to me it was impossible to navigate through the littered street. 

I know this hardly compares to the people who lost their lives on Thursday night, but a third, not so tragic tragedy;  the winds whipped my tree Dahlia into a pained horizontal position, instead of the stately upright one it had grown into. 
 I was out in the winds trying to secure it, but me, a tall post, and a sledgehammer in the high winds was almost comical.  The post is actually visible in the pic.  LOL  I didn't think it would stay in place, but it did.  However, it was a quick fix that clearly didn't solve my problem.