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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Because of the snow and wind storms here, I've only gotten about half the 
e-mails.

We had hoop houses up on the bluff that were made using livestock panels. 
The winds are 50 mph and higher every single winter.  The plastic 
occassionally lost the battle but the hoop houses stood firm!

A friend here in town also has the livestock panel hoop houses and they have 
withstood having over 2' of snow dumped on them, wet and heavy snow, I might 
add, in one night.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- >
> On Jan 4, 2008, at 9:06 PM, Marie McHarry wrote:
>
> > My
> > problem with having a greenhouse is more or less tied up with erratic
> > weather: when we have these huge 40 and 50 degree shifts in
> > temperature, we also experience winds in the 25 to 45 mph range. One
> > thing I can see that needs doing is putting in windbreaks, but does
> > anyone have experience of a hoop structure that will actually survive
> > that kind of wind?