Every path through my woods looks like this. Hurricane Helene was ten times worse than Idalia for south Georgia and north Florida. Forestry is Georgia’s top industry, and it is hurting bad, along with pecan trees and other agriculture.
![[Fallen oak and pine trees after Hurricane Helene]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-12-07--fields-firebreak/20241207_171626.jpg)
Fallen oak and pine trees after Hurricane Helene
-jsq
Our cypress swamp doesn’t look too bad at the west end, after Hurricane Helene.
But some of it is quite bad. Continue reading
Walk anywhere, take chainsaws.
We hadn’t finished cleaning up from Hurricane Idalia, more than a year ago. Hurricane Helene was ten times worse.
At least the dogs get some amusement out of climbing logs.
![[Most woods paths are like this, or worse]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-10-21--woods-deadfalls-hurricane-helene/20241021_085644.jpg)
Most woods paths are like this, or worse
Small saw path, or big saw path?
Small saw, she said.
![[16-inch Ego electric chainsaw on water oak deadfall]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-10-03--small-saw-dogs-deadfall/20241003_180410.jpg)
16-inch Ego electric chainsaw on water oak deadfall
In her defense, we did saw a bunch of smaller stuff before we came to this deadfall. And that EGO 16-inch electric chainsaw will saw bigger logs than that. But I prefer the bigger saw for that sort of thing.
Meanwhile, on another log, the pale dogs were doing their circus act. Continue reading
Howling and bumping from about 11:30 PM to 2 AM. Hurricane Helene made Debby and Idalia sound like nothing.
And the morning light showed it was worse than that.
When we moved back here in 2007, old timers told us they remembered this oak on the back driveway from when they were young, early in the 20th century.
This other oak just missed the red-iron building we were in. Continue reading
Back in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, my father and grandfather paid off the mortgage on the farm through income from turpentine. This is a catface, where the bark was scraped off a pine tree so its sap would ooze out, to be caught in a metal cup nailed below on the tree.
The rest of the tree long ago was logged.
Behind the pine tree stump and the adjoining oak tree, you can see a beaver pond. Continue reading
![[Deadfall, west end]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-11-11--swamp-dogs/20241111_101217.jpg)
![[Ancient oak]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-09-27--hurricane-helene/20240927_073522.jpg)
![[Catface and beaver pond]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-16--catface-beaver-pond/20200616_132920.jpg)