Remnants of Katrina

When the hurricane finally got to Vermont, it was definitely weakened. It still managed to dump 4 inches of rain on us within a couple of hours and the dark clouds that blew in were amazing. The sky would turn dark as night in the middle of the day and suddenly rain would dump on us. Twenty minutes later it would be bright and sunny for a while, then it would start all over. The water damaged our ceiling inside our living room! It also killed a few of my citrus seedlings because my husband left them under the eaves of the house the other day without telling me and the amount of water coming down from the edge of the roof was ridiculous (no gutters). I have 3 left. My apple tree survived, my avocado survived although the second pit I planted rotted from all the moisture. My Hibiscus lived although with a few less leaves and my rubber tree that I had thrown out there also is fine. I can not even begin to imagine the magnitude of that storm down south if it was still as strong as it was up here (we don't get a lot of storms).