Ep. 3-8: Hurricane Harvey & Gardening Through Natural Disasters

I wasn’t sure how to talk about Hurricane Harvey or even if I should even discuss it on the podcast. While I experienced some flooding issues related to my garden and yard, my house is still in tact. That said, I think it was and is valuable to talk about the storm and other natural disasters I’ve experienced first hand or adjacently. It’s a long episode, an hour, and honestly I can’t believe I talked to myself for an hour! I delve into some flooding events I remember as a kid and then work my way through various tropical systems I experienced starting in college and then through my years of living in Florida. I didn’t even talk about Hurricane Katrina (an internet friend lost everything), Hurricane Ike (hit Galveston and Bolivar Peninsula, affecting people I know in Galveston and Houston), or even Irma and Maria from this year.

Even if you don’t experience tropical weather events maybe you experience droughts frequently (hi there, California!) or wildfires (hello again, California! And you too, Oregon and Washington!) or you get tornadoes every spring or deal with floods because you are adjacent to a river system. Hopefully you are just really damn lucky and picked the best place to live and haven’t been affected by a natural disaster yet—I really do hope!

We all have something to work on in our gardens and lives to better prepare for a natural disaster and as I mention in the podcast, our gardens are not permanent. We must make do with what we’re given and hope for the best.

Music: “New Day” by Lee Rosevere

Show Notes

My Flood Event Write Ups

July 2012 Flood:

The Adventure I Wasn’t Planning On

Memorial Day 2016 Flood:

500 Year Flood

Flood Video

The Garden Before the Flood aka: 500 Year Flood Day 2

Harvey Update

Fort Worth 1949 Flood

1949 Flood YouTube Video

The Flood of Forty-Nine: People in Trees, Horses on Roofs

Fort Worth Flashback: 1949 flood called worst in our history

Aerial View of Flood in Fort Worth in 1949

The FWPD Collection – Fort Worth Flood of 1949

In Fort Worth’s ’49 flood, West 7th was underwater, and that wasn’t all

Fort Worth 1989 Flood

Deja Deluge: Forty Years On, the Flood of 1989

Deja Deluge: The Flood of 1989 YouTube Video

1994 San Jacinto River Flood

River of Fire: Remembering the flood of 1994

The Flood of October 1994 Revisited

San Jacinto River Flood YouTube video

Flood of 1994: History could repeat itself