Tom built our tomato trellises to last. They were heavy, balanced, braced. But they were no match for our current wind event.
We usually have these wind events in late summer and early fall. I’m not sure we’ve ever had anything like this in January before.
The National Weather Service warned us that it was coming, but we never even imagined it would take down our trellises. Many folks are out of power. Mt. Diablo, just a few miles to our east, saw wind gusts of 82 mph last night. Dozens of fires have begun and been put out. Some have developed into larger fires. We’ve had basically no rain, and the humidity is in the basement, leaving us with extremely dry conditions.
This is from Fire.gov right now.
The wind should abate by tonight. As soon as it does, we’ll have some cleanup and rebuilding to do.
