Re: Re: Re: weather rant now: flooding

Pam: It's not that we don't get flooding here, you understand...we can
have terrible seasons of flooding (and there is nothing quite like
watching the Mississippi River flood it's banks and end up four or five
blocks away from the levee!) It's just that with the little snow we've
had this year, combined with the intermittent warming spells, the snow
has melted gradually and is gone before the next snowfall comes. We got
6 inches on Tue/Wed., and probably 1/3 of that was gone by Wednesday
night and the temps here never even cracked 30, but the sun was shining
so brightly it just melted right away. The years we have to watch for
flooding are the years where it snows a ton and stays very cold all
winter so that when spring comes, there is four or more feet of snow all
melting at once...it is not a pretty sight.



Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
--Albert Einstein

 --- On Wed 03/05, Pamela J. Evans < gardenqueen@gbronline.com > wrote:
From: Pamela J. Evans [mailto: gardenqueen@gbronline.com]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Wed,  5 Mar 2003 12:38:08 -0600
Subject: Re: Re: Re: [CHAT] weather rant  was: just checking

We have flash floods from the "toad floaters" we get, plus there are no
sewers in the streets for storm drainage. Makes for an interesting
landscaping challange to say the least. That's why I surround all my
flower beds, shrubs and so forth w/ bricks. Keeps them from washing away
during storms. Glad you don't get those up there.


Pam

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Donna" <justme@prairieinet.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:10:16 -0600

>I rather doubt I will ever have a flash flood problems, but north or
>south of me may. This year we do not have enough snow to do that. What
>we got last night will be gone by Sat with the predicted highs. Kinda
>like a snow, melt game mother nature is playing this year.
>
>
>Donna
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Pamela J. Evans
>Sent: 3/5/2003 11:33:27 AM
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] weather rant  was: just checking
>
>> Glad you are getting moisture, but if you get too much snow melt all at
>> one time - can't you have a flash flooding problem?? I pray that doesn't
>> happen!!
>> 
>> 
>> Pam
>> 
>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> From: "Donna" <justme@prairieinet.net>
>> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Date:  Wed, 5 Mar 2003 07:57:22 -0600
>> 
>> >Well for what it is worth- the wind shifted here late last night... so
>> >someone else got the brunt of the storm. Hard to say how much snow we
>> >got, drifting is the problem this am. The plow truck in my driveway is
>> >buried to the roof, so took the suv from the garage instead. Sending
>> >some employees over there to dig it out or something. Gotta love
>> >it.....:(
>> >
>> >
>> >Donna
>> >nice summary of the lousy weather pattern.... but we do need the moisture here bad!
>> >
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>> Kemp TX/zone 8A
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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