Re: more crazy weather
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  • Subject: Re: more crazy weather
  • From: J* S* <i*@q.com>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:32:08 -0800
Well said, Cyndi.



The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative
adopts them. --Mark Twain


On Jan 17, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI
wrote:

> We are certainly not getting any water here in my bit of the desert. So
> you're thinking, desert, duh, of course there's no water - but normally we
> would have had a few inches by now and so far there's nothing. Temperatures
> have been a bit warmer than usual, although not bizarrely so, and we don't
> seem to have had as much wind either. All the moisture is getting stopped
> way up north due to the La Nina effect.
>
> And Tricia...please take this with the utmost respect... there are seven
> BILLION people on this earth now, all of them eating, drinking, breathing
> and excreting - to believe we can have no impact is wishful thinking. Have
> you never seen smog? It cannot be such a leap from looking at the filthy
air
> over Los Angeles, Houston, or Beijing to realize there are engines all over
> the world, and that stuff goes somewhere. I am sure the people who shot
> passenger pigeons believed that their actions could not affect such a huge
> part of God's creation - after all, there were billions of them. The
> fishermen who caught tons of Atlantic cod could not believe such bounty
> would run out. Nonetheless the pigeons are extinct and the cod fishery is
> gone. Just in my childhood, the citrus orchards of the San Fernando Valley
> and the Inland Empire were replaced by strip malls and housing tracts. The
> desert where I live now is being scraped up and more houses built (okay,
not
> just at the moment, but it will resume). People need to live somewhere and
I
> benefit from technology too - but I see the impact locally. I cannot talk
> myself into believing there is no impact globally.
>
> Cyndi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
> Of James Singer
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 9:40 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] more crazy weather
>
> I think "water," or the lack of it, is the big concern here in the West. We
> don't seem to be getting as much rain and/or snow as usual. Many of the ski
> resorts, like that of Auralie's son, have yet to open. When I say not as
> much
> rain as usual, I don't mean clear skies. Still gets cloudy and foggy, still
> drizzles, but no substantial precip.
>
> "I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it." -- Ray Bradbury
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 16, 2012, at 7:47 AM, BONNIE_HOLMES wrote:
>
>> It has been crazy here, too. But, mostly between 3-6 degrees above
>> normal. It warms, bringing up daffodils and pushing out buds, then,
>> cools below freezing. I'm thinking that the plants that make it will be
>> the ones that can take this up and down weather and the longer & warmer
>> summers. Over 30 years of gardening in the same place shows me that
>> there is true warming. So far, it has been over 5 years of warmer winter
>> weather.
>>
>>
>>
>> B
>> ETN Zone 7
>> Remember the River Raisin, the Alamo, the Maine, Pearl Harbor, 911.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com
>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 9:48:03 AM
>> Subject: [CHAT] more crazy weather
>>
>> What a see-saw season. After our October snow storm, it has been
>> mostly pretty mild and very wet - often not even freezing at night. A
>> couple of times it has dropped down to the lower 20s for a couple of
>> days, but then warmed back up. Last week we observed that our
>> pond had not frozen,and we always expected to boys to have
>> skating parties there during the holidays. On Wednesday the
>> ground was not even frozen, but I reluctantly finished cutting back
>> the perennials, some of which were still green. Yesterday morning
>> the temperature was 19 degrees, and this morning it was 7 degrees.
>> We had such cold weather last year, but things came through very
>> well because there was a heavy snow cover from early December
>> right through until March. This year the ground is quite open. Not
>> a flake of snow since October. I'm really worried about how my
>> plants will survive. Snow can complicate life at times but it does
>> have a purpose other than just to be skiied on. My son in Colorado
>> is complaining that though Denver has snow, there was none at
>> Winter Park where they have bought a ski condo. Oh well. Poor
>> baby.
>>
>> Auralie
>>
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