Re: Blessed Rain!

with 100 degree temperatures?

-- "David Franzman" <dfranzma@pacbell.net> wrote:
Geez, you eastern whiners.  We go for 5 months without rain almost every 
year.  Get used to the color brown.  It's not so bad...really!

David
http://www.atouchofthetropics.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pam Evans" <gardenqueen@gmail.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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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