Re: OT: El Nino
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- Subject: Re: OT: El Nino
- From: J* I* J* <j*@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 08:53:13 -0600 (MDT)
Simone Clark wrote:
>
> El Nino brings drought to those of us on this side of the Pacific. It is
> already having a significant inpact in South East Asia, indeed there are
> thousands of people in Papua New Guinea facing famine already as they have
> not had enough rain to grow sweet potato their staple food. Farmers here,
> many of them still drought declared from the last El Nino, are getting rid
> of stock as a pre-emptive measure. We are certainly hoping it is "all hype".
Simone, thank you. I confess to all too often falling into a California
centric view of the world, and I too often forget that we are an
international group here.
Thank you, and I truly hope that the droughts lessen in all parts of the
world.
John | "There be dragons here"
| Annotation used by ancient cartographers
| to indicate the edge of the known world.
John Jones, jijones@ix.netcom.com
Fremont CA, USDA zone 8/9 (coastal, bay)
Max high 95F/35C, Min Low 28F/-2C average 10 days each
Heavy clay base for my raised beds.
