Re: Weather

Maureen--my condolences to you and now to all those being clobbered in New
England with the ice storms.  Never actually having seen one, I can only
imagine the devastation.  I hope you can all recover quickly.

Barb in Santa Fe the Blessed

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark, Maureen <Mark.Maureen@fin.gc.ca>
To: Multiple recipients of list <iris-l@rt66.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 07, 1998 1:45 PM
Subject: RE: Weather


>The warm weather extends here to Ottawa too.  Our snow cover has been
>reduced to about one foot with a hard layer of ice on top.  We've just
>survived two days of freezing rain and power outages throughout the city
>as the ice has been downing power lines and shorting transformers.
>Schools have been closed both days.  We are praying for it to get colder
>so that the snow cover will stay on our irises and newly planted Austin
>roses.
>
>Maureen Mark
>mark.maureen@fin.gc.ca
>Ottawa, Canada
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: daf10@cornell.edu [SMTP:daf10@cornell.edu]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 1998 11:50 AM
>> To: Multiple recipients of list
>> Subject: Re: Weather
>>
>> >Hello Everyone,
>> > It seems that the topic lately of interest is this unusual
>> weather we are
>> >all having.  Here it is the coldest that it has been since we moved
>> to
>> >southern California eight years ago.  We are getting a heavy frost
>> every
>> >morning.  It has been in the low twenties every night.  Usually we
>> don't
>> >even get enough frost to chill the peach tree. We hate it.  Will you
>> take
>> >your cold back now, Linda?  Go away El Nino.  Where is all the rain
>> that we
>> >are supposed to be seeing?
>> > Steve
>>
>> Steve--both your rain and warm temps. are HERE, in upstate NY!  It is
>> bizarre--54 degrees F. here today at 11:00 am.  We broke a temp.
>> record
>> yesterday, and will probably do so again today.  The 2 feet of snow we
>> got
>> after Christmas has melted in a rush of flooding--minor, so far--but
>> it DID
>> rain (not snow!) last night and more is predicted for the next few
>> days.
>>
>>
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