TigerDeacon

Predawn Sunday morning, refueling the generator, with trees cracking and limbs falling in the back yard along with thunder roared lightening all while sleet and freezing rain poured down.

I have three large crepe myrtles which have each had different levels of damage from the ice storm. I'm in North Louisiana so we got pretty heavy ice. Today is the first day without ice on them. But I have been at work so I haven't seen them since this morning.

The one in my front yard just has bent limbs while the trunks just seem to be mostly upright. The second one has some large limbs broken off but a lot of the trunks are sagging. The one outside my back door got it the worst with most of the trucks and large limbs are completely broken off or cracked. It also had a bad aphid attack in 2024 but I was able to treat it.

Obviously, I plan to cut off the broken limbs but I've seen a lot of internet "experts" talking about tying up the bent trunks together to see if they recover their natural shape.

Has anyone had any luck doing this before? Any other suggestions? Thanks!

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I was brought up "If you kill it, you eat it"

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This doesn't apply to hogs or wasps.

Everyone in this thread around Sikes?

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Black Mouth Cur

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Can be the most protective dogs if they feel like their pack is threatened.

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popular

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Bleeding purple

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Whoa! When was the last time you were on the OB?!?


You still got that pic of me with that "huge" boar?

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a 26 gun safe is more like a 13 gun safe

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I doubt you could get that many in it.

26 gun safe is about a 5-6 long gun safe.

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likely to be heavy as shite and will have noticeably less felt recoil. There are a ton out there and they’ll all shoot good, cause they’re heavy as shite.

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Yeah, but is it heavy?