coconuts

[air360]

ok...i have a very odd question....although it sounds funny i am seriously asking this...and not just making a joke...
i was reading in another post (the CDC one) and someone mentioned coconuts going through someones window....and it made me wonder...how often does something like this happen...do any of you who have coconuts around ever seen them just flying through the air during a hurricane....just imagining that makes me laugh..although i bet they could do some damage....

[Greg]

On the news they had a palm branch embedded into a stucco wall on the East coast from Frances. I heard about coconuts in the Bahamas too.

[caribepr]

I have some friends who are rehabbing a house (from HUGO, incredibly) here. Their neighbors are also friends of mine, one the woman I've mentioned who works with FEMA and is rarely on island. When she saw they'd planted a coconut tree she was seriously insistant they remove it immediately, telling them that when it bore fruit, the direction those coconuts would come would be through her (most likely boarded up, but not the point) windows in a hurricane. They took the tree out.

[canegrl04]

I would imagine that a coconut in a hurricane is just like a cannon ball

[greeng13]

I would imagine that a coconut in a hurricane is just like a cannon ball

"i like coconuts. you can break them open and they smell like ladies lying in the sun"---widespread panic..

but seriously..i think they would do more damage than a pecan tree

[bahamaswx]

I've very rarely seen coconuts hurled in hurricanes. I don't think it's all that common...

[hial2]

What had to be a HUGE avocado hit one of our plywood panels and it sounded like a cannon going off...THis occurred in the area where we were sitting, so if there had been no covering, the whole bay window would have exploded into flying lethal shards of death right where our whole family was sitting!!

[alicia-w]

There are entire articles on the subject:

http://broward.ifas.ufl.edu/english/hortcomm/hc020.htm

http://www.hotelinteractive.com/news/ar ... icleID=672 (mentioned)

http://www.sanpedrosun.net/old/98-403.html

http://www.bootkeyharbor.com/hurricanes.htm (see number 42)

http://www.state.fl.us/monroe/pages/hur ... rvive1.htm

numerous other ones.

[GalvestonDuck]

I wonder how long coconuts last. I've never seen a "bad" coconut in the grocery store. I'm sure they'd eventually rot, but can you tell until you break it open?

[coriolis]

Put the lime in the coconut, drink them both together.......

[GalvestonDuck]

Tried to copy and paste...but it's copyrighted.

http://www.jokecrazy.com/article485.html

[alicia-w]

ARGH!!! That was so bad, it really is funny!!!

[Miss Mary]

I wonder how long coconuts last. I've never seen a "bad" coconut in the grocery store. I'm sure they'd eventually rot, but can you tell until you break it open?

I went to Hawaii with two fellow single girl friends in 1984. At a touristy stand they were addressing coconuts to send home to nieces and nephews, writing the actual addy on the fruit. My nieces were 4 and 7 then so I thought they'd get a kick out of one too. But it went bad. My sister-in-law said she just about jumped out of her skin when she reached into her mailbox without looking and felt something fuzzy, thinking it may be an animal. She screamed, yanked her hand out and cautiously peered inside. Gingerly she took the coconut out and thought - huh, this is original.....LOL When she cut into it they quickly realized the milk had gone sour. So it promptly went into the garbage. But it made for a funny story, one that has been retold many times.

Mary

[azskyman]

After witnessing a horse in a tree and pieces of roadway in my yard after an F4 tornado in 1967, it's not hard to imagine that powerful horizontal winds might hurl coconuts long distances and skip them through neighborhoods in search of a window or two.