Re: Re: Rain, sweet rain

We have plenty of storm drains, just no where for the water to go. But we
don't have snow plows, since we get no snow. You know, I've never even seen
a snow plow except on the weather channel.

Andrea H
Beaufort, SC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <gardenqueen@academicplanet.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Rain, sweet rain


> Some places don't have storm drains. Don't get enough rain. When the
> streets fill up it starts creeping into the yards. But it doesn't happen
> very often. We don't have snowplows down here for the same reason....
>
>
> Pam Evans
> Kemp, TX
> zone 8A
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kitty
> Sent: 4/29/2004 9:04:37 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Rain, sweet rain
>
> > Wow.  When it rains it pours!  A foot deep - problems with the storm
drains
>
> > or just coming down that fast?
>
> > We're supposed to be getting rain over several days soon.  I wanted to
get
>
> > my lawn fertilizer down before it gets here, but the winds have been
high
>
> > the past several days.  Maybe there'll be a window of opportunity
tomorrow.
>
> > I did get 600 feet of irrigation tubing set today with sprayers in
place.
>
> >
>
> > Kitty
>
> >
>
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
>
> > From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
>
> > To: "Chat" <gardenchat@hort.net>
>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 5:41 PM
>
> > Subject: [CHAT] Rain, sweet rain
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > > It's here. At last. Came as I was on my way home from the nursery this
>
> > > afternoon
>
> > >
>
> > > Sky was grey, overcast, when I left the building--the kind of weather
>
> > > where you think you feel sprinkles but are never quite sure. Cool,
>
> > > prickly skin.
>
> > >
>
> > > By the time I got a mile down the road to the east-west artery that
>
> > > meanders toward the plantation, it was pouring. And when I got home--7
>
> > > miles further into the heart of the storm--the water was a foot deep
on
>
> > > some of the streets.
>
> > >
>
> > > It's now 2 hours later. It's still raining. A gentle, gentle trickle.
>
> > > The brave cat [Beans] yowls to go out, but won't leave the shelter of
>
> > > the doorway when I open the door for her.
>
> > >
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> > >
>
> > >
>
> > > Island Jim
>
> > > Southwest Florida
>
> > > Zone 10
>
> > >
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