In this video, Laurence Edwards of Black Mountain Honey walks viewers through the aftermath of a severe windstorm (up to 100 mph) that felled numerous trees and blocked the access track to his apiaries. He describes the unusual northeast wind direction, the extensive debris, and his concerns for the roughly 30 hives behind the fallen trees. Upon reaching the apiary, he inspects the hives and surrounding equipment, noting that while many boxes have been displaced or are empty, none of the bee colonies are dead or significantly damaged. He attributes the positive outcome to prior preparation (strapping down equipment, allowing moisture to dry) and reflects on lessons learned about securing apiary gear before extreme weather. The video ends with a typical call‑to‑action for subscriptions.
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Hi, I'm Lawrence Edwards from Black Mountain Honey, and we're on to another very, very windy edition of No Nonsense Beekeeping. This is the track that leads up to the main apiary that I've got where I film most of my videos, and as you can see, it's completely blocked. Like, I can't even really get through. This happened up here last year. Nowhere near as bad as this, so I'm gonna have to try and squeeze through here somehow. But I really hope that my beehives are all right. There's about 30 beehives behind this tree, and I'm just hoping that the trees haven't crushed any of them. Right, I'm over the first tree, and then let's continue along the path. All right, more trees, so I'm gonna have to try and get through these trees somehow. This is a mega storm. This is up to 100 mile an hour winds. And what's really bad is that they're in the wrong direction. So normally we get winds coming in from the west, northwest, coming down. This one came from the northeast and it has just done so much damage. Like, the amount of trees it's pulled down, I've never seen anything like it. And they're all in a different direction to the way they were last time. So again, I'm going to try and get through these trees here. I just pray that the bees are okay and they're not all covered under big branches of trees. Right, so this is what the road looks like from the other way. This is a track, a really accessible track, and it's just trees at the moment. So I'm just hoping, really, really hoping the bees are okay. I'm gonna take a walk up there now. I've not seen them yet, so you're gonna get your first glimpse right before me at the same time. Let's go and have a look, see if those beehives are okay. Right, that's not good. Loads of boxes that are empty, but to be fair, that's me just stacking stuff up because I've run out of space. I can live with that. Over here, everything's strapped down. Can live with that as well. Few more boxes. You can see it's a little bit silly stacking stuff up like that. That's been moved by the wind. Luckily, that one there—that is an empty box. So the only one up here that's actually an empty box is okay, and none of the beehives are actually damaged. So I got so lucky here. I really, really did. I was preparing for this to be. So, so much worse than it was, and it's just a case of me being really stupid and leaving stuff out and not strapping it down and waiting for a decent day to do it because it's been a little bit wet. I've been letting stuff dry out. Thank goodness though, there's no dead beehives at this one either. So second apiary done. Lots of trees down, lots of boxes all over the place. Bit of tidying up to do, but no dead bees. So I hope you enjoyed that one. I'll see you at the next apiary. As always, please hit the subscribe button. Please hit the bell so you're notified of every video, and I'll see you next time. Bye.
