The first Winter Weather Advisory of this prolonged winter event was issued in the morning hours of Thursday, February 11th for Burleson, Brazos, and Madison counties as area roads began to become hazardous from the icy precipitation. With this cold air in place, lingering precipitation the following day fell as sleet and freezing rain across the northwestern counties. It all began Wednesday, February 10th when a cold front moved through the area bringing the first surge of cold air into the region. While the damage is still being assessed, this will likely go down as the first billion dollar disaster of 2021 globally, and potentially the most costly weather disaster for the state of Texas in history, surpassing even Hurricane Harvey from 2017.
This was one of the most impactful winter events in recent history that brought multiday road closures, power outages, loss of heat, broken pipes, and other societal impacts for the region.
We don’t give the trees any substance, they just have to use what’s available in the soil that we feed them.The Winter Outbreak that occurred on Valentine's Week 2021 brought not only snow, sleet, and freezing rain to Southeast Texas, but also extreme cold temperatures that lasted for several days. It degrades to go back into the soil, and feeds the tree. That leaf litter is supposed to be under the tree. So just like Wes was talking, the ones in residential areas are not getting any leaf litter. And the thing around that, remember that trees make their own root soil. A lot of is popping off right now in trees that people didn’t even know what happened. Bark that’s broken and separating, it’s going to fall off. You don’t want to strap the bark on, we’ve seen that…. So if we’re getting trees from North Carolina, it’s a different tree than you’re getting from Louisiana even though it is a live oak…” – David Brantley, Southern Botanical, TreeNewal James Theiss “There are live oak trees that spanned from Big Bend all the way up through the United States, and each genetic in that seed, in that tree, has a different time when it breaks bud, has a different way it responds to things like that. All these things are triggering these trees to start getting active.” – Wesley Rivers, VP of Operations, TreeNewal David Brantley By mid-February, we’re normally warming up around here trees had been exposed to 70-plus-degree weather the week before. The timing of the freeze was a big problem because it was late. So, some trees that just were genetically predisposed to be early got really hurt.
This just devastates the interior of the plant. Water crystallizes and freezes inside the vascular tissue and ruptures vessels and breaks cell walls. Trees that were breaking dormancy early were absorbing water. And I think the variability there is due to genetic differences. A lot of them looked like nothing happened, and a lot of them got completely killed. “But the freeze was devastating to a lot of them.
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Professionals at the Treenewal Team, including VP of Operations Wesley Rivers, Southern Botanical Pro David Brantley, and Cleanscapes Pro James Theiss, delve deep into the impacts of the recent freeze on trees, touching on genetic predispositions, regional differences, and the need for proper care. The damage from the freeze on trees varied among tree species and individual trees, with some being more susceptible to harm due to breaking dormancy early, and trees from different regions, such as North Carolina and Louisiana, can exhibit unique responses to the same stressors. This helps us better understand the complex interplay between environmental factors and tree health. It’s important to recognize that trees are influenced by genetic predispositions and regional differences. The severely stressed trees, weakened by the freeze, are now vulnerable to these beetles that attack both healthy and stressed pines. For example, East Texas pine trees face a lingering threat from the Great Texas Freeze of 2021 in the form of Ips engraver beetles. It’s not only still being felt, but often missed in tackling the lingering effects of weather anomalies: The impact on Texas’ trees. The Great Texas Freeze of 2021 had varied negative consequences on the region, from actual fatalities, to damage to infrastructure and utilities.
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