Gene Allen Realtor Hampton Roads Real Estate

Farmers in Hampton Roads have taken a big hit from the latest Nor'easter. It came much too soon for them. Not only did the rain flood the fields keeping the farmers from finishing the harvest but it also washed away the winter wheat crop for the area. About the only plant that was done harvesting was the peanut. Cotton and soybeans took a big hit. The cotton falls out of the balls making the color decline and the wind beats the soy beans into the ground so they just rot. The farmers are praying for a lot of sunshine in the next few weeks to help them out.

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Tidewater Community College in Suffolk is sitting on some primo land. It seems they own that big open area of land you see when you first come out of the Moniter Merrimac tunnel from Hampton. I am talking not only to the right of the bridge but to the left as well. There is about 389 acres. When this is sold to developers it will be a huge financial boon to the college. Interstate access and waterfront property. Where else in the area is there anything like this left? There is a small superfund cleanup site on the land but that will all be done by 2014.

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Not much damage in the Glenwood area of Virginia Beach after the Nor'easter. There were some fences down, Independence Blvd had a high water area but nothing like happened in the last tropical storm we had. Most of the damage was due to the 75 mph wind that blew for a while. Luckily we don't live in one of the areas affected by the tides.

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Robings still have to eat in the Noreaster in the Glenwood area. I was getting ready to take out a big weed in my yard that supplies berries for the birds because it had fallen over due to the cold weather. The storm came so the plant stayed. Lucky for this little fellow because he came and gorged himself on berries.

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I said bird "feeder" not "bird" feeder. I need to be careful in how Iemphasize My words. When I put out my bird feeder in the back yard the idea was to feed the birds bird seed. Apparently this young Osprey (I think) has decided that I meant "bird" feeder and the bird feeder was meant to feed him. He has taken several small birds from my backyard. This is the first time I have seen one up close and personal. He is maybe 15 feet from my window. He lives high atop a power pole about 1.2 mile from my house in Glenwood on the Honeybee Golf Course. He seriously needs to join his buddies in going south for the winter (see the last picture).

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