Dinadan wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2026 2:28 am
Do a lot of coconuts fall during a tropical storm?
Oh yeah! Although, they tend to hang on pretty tightly until they're ready to drop so it’s mostly the coconuts that were already close to falling on their own anyway, the storms just make it happen a little sooner than nature intended. But when they do fall they can be deadly just like a bowling ball falling 20’ or more on your head would be!
These coconuts are on my neighbor's tree that's right next to our driveway where our car is parked. We were lucky none of them came down and landed on our car in the storm
(she's promised to have a guy cut them down before the next storm)
Like most palm trees, Coconut Palms are pretty amazing for their ability to endure super strong winds without breaking or uprooting. Perfectly adapted to survival in some pretty hostile conditions.
Photos from the archive to get back on topic:
We had a lot of wind and rain and a lengthy power outage but fortunately no damage to our house. Despite this extreme weather event over the weekend and the 4.1 mag earthquake today (not to mention the 6.0 magnitude earthquake last May, torrential rainfall causing flash floods and the ever-present threat of tsunamis), many people still cling to the belief that living in Hawaii is like living in paradise 
Where do they get such a crazy notion? 
I love the scales 
... From the looks of the storm on the radar 
