Re: heat and water

It's all part of the same equation to me: freezing rain + sleet = ice storm with no electricity for up to a week! I'd rather have snow, which rarely happens here.
zem
zone 7
West TN
----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Browning" <judybrowning@lewiston.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] heat and water


Pam, We call that a freezing rain here. Sleet is like wet miniature hail,
comes down hard, usually with a fierce wind. Stings, gets you wet and very
cold, very quickly.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam Evans" <gardenqueen@gmail.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] heat and water



Sleet is nasty stuff.  Wet little drops of ice from the sky.  Coats
everything in ice.  Roads, roofs, vehicles, power lines, trees.
Damages most and is sheer h*** to drive on.  We get that verrrrryyyy
rarely thank goodness.  You haven't missed a thing.


On 8/8/05, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSR <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>

wrote:
> What's sleet?
> (Okay, I know what it's supposed to be, I've just never seen it.)
> I grew up where frost is an experience you got the camera out for. > About
> broke my heart to move here where it happens every winter. I think real
snow
> would kill me. Of course, you've got all those months in which you > don't
> have to feel guilty about not weeding. Hmmm.
> On second thought, I experienced Minnesota this June. I'll stick with
the

> desert.
>
> Cyndi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On

Behalf
> Of kmrsy@netzero.com
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 11:58 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] heat and water
>
> It does rain in Indy in the summertime.
>
> and re> > It rains in the winter.
> Nope, it sleets in winter; it snows in winter. It can get downright
> crappy in winter, precipitationally speaking. But you can dance in it > if
> you want.
>
>
> Kitty
>
>
> -- james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net> wrote:
> Indianapolis.
>
> On Aug 8, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSR wrote:
>
> > I was born in Los Angeles. I remember when I was little, and on the
> > radio
> > was playing that syrupy song "Little Green Apples". I was old enough
> > to know
> > that the singer was saying things that weren't supposed to be true,
> > but the
> > part about "it don't rain in (wherever) in the summertime" baffled > > me.
> > Because I knew even then, you see, that it DOESN'T rain in the
> > summertime.
> > It rains in the winter.
> > And here I am, mumble years later, and when we get a summer
> > thunderstorm all
> > us desert rats go out to watch, and stand in rain if we can. It's a
> > rare
> > treat. Although this summer has been a little odd - we've had
> > thunderstorms
> > pretty frequently over the past month. Last week we had lightning
> > warnings
> > almost every day and they are supposed to continue this week. On
> > Saturday it
> > did rain a little at my house.
> > So I went out to stand in it, of course!
> >
> > Cyndi
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> > Behalf
> > Of David Franzman
> > Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 8:28 PM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: [CHAT] heat and water
> >
> > Hi folks
> >
> > Just thought of an addition sparked by Pam's comment about how hot it
> > gets
> > here. In northern Ca. it doesn't stay as hot as Texas that's for
> > sure. We
> > have the cool ocean breezes that come in in the form of fog that > > keeps
> > us in
> >
> > a perpetual heat wave. But many folks in the Sacramento and San
> > Joaquin
> > Valleys experience that kind of heat and then some. That's not to
> > mention
> > southern Ca. in the desert regions where those are the normal type of
> > temps.
> >
> > My friend in Phoenix hasn't had a drop of rain since January where
> > they got
> > so much it almost flooded them out of house and home...but none since
> > then.
> >
> > Again, we're set up for that and I think that's the difference.
> > Mentally we
> >
> > don't expect any rain and so it's not depressing when it doesn't > > come.
> > I
> > remember when we went through a decade long drought in the 80's and > > it
> > sucked. You would see the clouds come over and break up before it
> > dropped
> > anything. I know what it's like and I hate droughts so even though
> > I'm a
> > smart--- I do feel your pain Pam.
> >
> > David
> > http://www.atouchofthetropics.net
> >
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> 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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