1) The trees that are still standing are either small flexible pines, live oaks, smaller flexible oaks, or other trees that were otherwise sheltered by trees around them.
2) Many of the trees in my neighborhood and elsewhere 2-5 miles inland that were not touched by surge were either stripped bare of leaves, permanently bent in the direction of the wind, snapped in half, stripped of limbs, uprooted, or burned badly by the winds (pines in particular show this with brown needles). It looked like nuclear winter just two weeks after the storm because everything looked dead or in-the-dead-of-winter bare.
2a) There is continuous tree damage like this in lessening amounts up to 90 miles inland in Mississippi.
3) Many of the stripped trees have undergone a new 'bloom'...the oaks are green again; many non-oaks are putting out new leaves too. One of my azaleas went nuts and bloomed while under a blanket of fallen pine limbs. There's a huge, hollow, broken oak trunk about 20 feet tall in my neighborhood. It has one tiny limb sticking out at the top from where it snapped and peeled in half, and that limb has put out new leaves, too.
4) Because I forgot to say it, Frank P, I am so sorry to hear you've lost so much.
