melissa-dallas
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It did not hit 101 degrees today as predicted. It didn't reach 101 because I got about seven inches of rain between midnight & noon today. My tomatoes in pots really suffered. Even very large plastic pots with several inches of decomposed granite in the bottom which had also just been watered blew over. Commercial tomato cages & also stakes do not go deep enough in the pots to support very large plants, so even some that the pots did not blow over they got bent over anyway. I did manage to stand them back up but they are all supporting each other. Ideally I would get concrete reinforcing wire and form a cylinder that goes around pot and all next time. I have red pears ripe already & some slicers getting close. Too soon to tell the damage. At least the water receded enough that I could get home this afternoon. For a while it looked iffy. We left work early because hours after it stopped raining a transformer blew down the street and we were without electricity or phones. We were way down the repair list from all the storm damage they were already working to fix.