Re: Rain, sweet rain

Lucky you. But you never lived in Pennsylvania either. Count yourself as
fortunate that you've never had to dig in a snow bank trying to find
your car.


Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrea H
Sent: 4/29/2004 9:19:40 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] 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.
> >
> > > >
> >
> > > >
> >
> > > >
> >
> > > > Island Jim
> >
> > > > Southwest Florida
> >
> > > > Zone 10
> >
> > > >
> >
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