Re: Blessed Rain!

Hurricanes are the pits, but I'm almost that desperate for rain here.
Four months of a whole lot of nothing is killing us here.

On 8/5/05, kmrsy@netzero.net <kmrsy@netzero.net> wrote:
> Say Good Night Irene
> 
> -- james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net> wrote:
> Looks like our only hope for any significant rain is in the
> soon-to-be-named hurricane Irene. Not exactly looking forward to it,
> but what are my options?
> 
> 
> On Aug 5, 2005, at 1:28 PM, Cathy Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > Much of ours probably ran off, too, but as we are on a slope, and the
> > perennial beds and vegetables are downhill, maybe they benefitted...
> > total was 1.35 inches in my rain gauge.
> >
> > Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> >
> > On Aug 4, 2005, at 9:31 PM, Donna wrote:
> >
> >> We got some rain this morning, hard hitting storm, lightening,
> >> thunder, not
> >> very good for the plants or ground as it all ran off.
> >>
> >> Been watering all week, but don't think I am winning the battle here.
> >>
> >> Donna
> >>
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> >>> Behalf Of Cathy Carpenter
> >>> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 7:53 PM
> >>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >>> Subject: [CHAT] Blessed Rain!
> >>>
> >>> Has been raining here for the past 30+ minutes. Probably coming down
> >>> too hard to do anything but run off, but at this point, I'll take
> >>> anything.  Will let you know what the rain gauge says tomorrow. (This
> >>> morning the drought in the midwest made the front page of the Wall
> >>> Street Journal.) At least I will probably get a one week respite from
> >>> hose hauling!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> >>>
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> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> Hardiness Zone 10
> Heat Zone 10
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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