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How do palm trees survive hurricanes? (2017)

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Re: How do palm trees survive hurricanes? (2017)

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A palm tree, speared by a piece of lumber during Hurricane Andrew: https://imgur.com/a/3f77mEa I was in Miami for Andrew. My dad owned a one-hour photo lab. After the storm, there were tons of insurance adjusters needing their photos developed. My dad and I got his lab open the day after Andrew and ran it on a portable generator for two weeks till the power came back. This was one of the photos we printed during that…

My sister lived across from the zoo and evacuated for Andrew. I went with her back the house after the storm and the neighborhood looked like a disorganized lumber yard. Nothing was standing.

Probably that was the Country Walk development. It’s next to the zoo. 90% of its 1700 homes were destroyed by Andrew. It was not built to code.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article172...

Re: How do palm trees survive hurricanes? (2017)

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Chilean-American here, absolutely. All the time. I still can barely do fahrenheit, and I've come to prefer the American system of feet and inches for human height.

A simple way to think of Fahrenheit is: 0 degrees is just about the coldest a person can stand, and 100 is the hottest.

Oh yeah it comes from body heat.
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