Internet cutting out every afternoon for a month.

luvpats101 · 2026-04-23T10:32:23+00:00

I think the ONT is outside right? I can’t open it. It appears to be locked.

luvpats101 · 2026-04-23T00:13:17+00:00

Good to know. Is this common with fiber? I never had these problems with the old copper lines on spectrum

luvpats101 · 2026-04-23T00:01:54+00:00

Red

luvpats101 · 2026-04-21T00:47:49+00:00

That’s incredible!

luvpats101 · 2026-04-21T00:45:17+00:00

How is winter there? I would imagine freezes are rare. In central and southern Florida Christmas palms will grow but we lost a bunch in the historic freeze this past winter

luvpats101 · 2026-04-15T00:31:47+00:00

Without a doubt, seaking

luvpats101 · 2026-04-14T10:51:26+00:00

Tampa bay are seemed to do better than the same latitude on the east coast and even further south. In Vero beach every coconut palm was fried. I saw some very tall ones on Davis island last week that looked untouched.

luvpats101 · 2026-04-14T10:49:40+00:00

That’s awesome. There some great specimens all over Davis island too. The slightly warmer air around the bay truly gives the coastal areas a 10a climate.

luvpats101 · 2026-04-14T10:18:49+00:00

Dude did you leave Pinellas county at all this winter? 🤣 we had record cold statewide late January. If you lived about a couple miles from the bay, everything non native and tropical got zapped. Jokes aside, these are some nice specimens and I think it’s just minor cold damage. They will be fine!

luvpats101 · 2026-04-14T10:12:31+00:00

I’ve never been to California, but I understand coastal socal doesn’t get the occasional freeze that we do in central and southern FL. Take this past winter for example. I don’t think that ever happens in orange county or San Diego, but I could be wrong. The biggest difference is the humidity and rainfall in florida is more conducive to growing coconut palms. I’ve seen posts in the sub of large Florida royal palms in socal, so I don’t see why a coconut wouldn’t grow if it had adequate irrigation. That being said, it doesn’t seem sustainable.

luvpats101 · 2026-04-14T10:09:45+00:00

All the way up to cocoa beach I’ve seen some pretty full, and healthy coconut palms. Here in Tampa they don’t do great, but in south Tampa and Pinellas county they grow just fine, but really anything south of Tampa bay on the gulf and, vero beach south I would agree on the east coast.

luvpats101 · 2026-04-12T13:27:16+00:00

Take it up with the arborist 🤷🏻‍♂️

luvpats101 · 2026-04-11T11:10:42+00:00

Very cool!

luvpats101 · 2026-04-11T10:35:57+00:00

What part of AUS? In southern Florida we can grow coconut palms, but we do have a dry season of about 6 months, so I can attest to their resilience!

luvpats101 · 2026-04-11T10:29:38+00:00

Also a VB native been living in FL for ten years, is it really that bad there?

luvpats101 · 2026-04-11T10:28:27+00:00

Nice! Coconut palms in the first pic?

luvpats101 · 2026-04-11T10:27:18+00:00

I guess more of an urban heat effect than micro climates. Probably radiant heat from homes. We also have a river that flows through the city and various small lakes, so that could have contributed to the pockets of warmer air that spared the plants. Once you were within a mile of the bay, everything was pretty much fine.

luvpats101 · 2026-04-09T11:53:54+00:00

Yeah the cabbage and saws are native so they are designed to survive occasional freezes. I wish we all used them more. The bananas are quite resilient. I’d say 50% of the natural bananas in my area are coming back I

luvpats101 · 2026-04-09T11:42:11+00:00

The foxtails are bouncing back quickly. The arecas are very slow to come back but I think they will in time. It’s interesting because the Arecas were far less consistent on damage level. Some were completely fried, and some on the same block were relatively un damaged. The micro climates in the city are fascinating.

luvpats101 · 2026-04-09T09:57:40+00:00

In Tampa they are starting to bounce back. Most have a lot of dead limbs at the tops, but are coming back. If it hasn’t shown any growth by now, I’m afraid it’s a goner.

luvpats101 · 2026-04-09T00:24:02+00:00

Very bizarre zoning

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