Re: Pams lighening

do you want fries w/ that?

On 7/15/05, Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:
> 48%  How do these kids think they will make a living?
> 
> Kitty
> neIN, Z5
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Zemuly Sanders" <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 12:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Pams lighening
> 
> 
> > Our stupid county has a kind of gnawing machine that is uses to 'trim'
> trees
> > along the roadsides.  The result is just god-awful -- almost as bad as the
> > result of their using lots of weed & brush killer along the shoulders of
> the
> > roads.
> >
> > Incidentally, in a recent study of high school graduation rates, our
> county
> > scored 48%.  That should give you an idea of the mind set here.
> >
> > zem
> > zone 7
> > West TN
> >
> >  <sundrops@earthlink.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005
> > lighening
> >
> >
> > > Here in the Sierra foothills, the local utility hires a private company
> > > who spends all their time cutting away branches from power lines.  This
> is
> > > not for winter storms so much as the fact that ten years ago a local
> wild
> > > fire was started by a branch coming down on a power line.  The fire
> burned
> > > many thousands of acres, including the area where my house now stands.
> > > The county sued the utility and won a substantial precedent-setting
> damage
> > > award -- and the utility company apparently got the message.
> > > --Barb, Grass Valley CA
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
> > > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 4:15 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Pams lighening
> > >
> > >
> > >> Andrea, around here we are told that it is more "cost effective" -
> > >> that is cheaper - to repair downed power lines than to prune
> > >> away overhaning branches and remove dead trees that are
> > >> destined to fall across lines and roads when a blow comes
> > >> through - or an early fall ice storm such as we have many
> > >> years.
> > >> Auralie
> > >>
> > >> In a message dated 07/14/2005 10:38:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > >> hodgesaa@earthlink.net writes:
> > >> David, what alternate reality are you living in? This is the south.
> Many
> > >> times we don't go forward, we go backwards. I will concede that some of
> > >> our
> > >> phone and power lines in new subdivisions are buried, however, it's
> just
> > >> TOO difficult to bury those old ones that get blown out in every storm.
> > >> Don't get me started.
> > >>
> > >> Andrea H
> > >>
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-- 
Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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