Re: OT : Re: wondering
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- Subject: Re: OT : Re: wondering
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- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:22:36 -0600
From: "Linda Horth" <lhorth@rconnect.com>
to Marte in the mtns- Ilive in z4 also but don't have snow in june , have
wondered about living in the south so I could garden all year round but
after hearing all the problems the people down there have with their irises
let alone all the other plants I'l have to rethink about putting up with a
couple mos. of cold weather
Tom in the valley in Winona Southeast Mn z4 lhorth@rconnect.com
> To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: [iris-talk] OT : Re: wondering
> Date: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 10:07 AM
>
> From: Marte Halleck <MorJHalleck@worldnet.att.net>
>
> Paul & Yvonne Tyerman wrote:
> >
> >
> > I've always wondered what it must be like to live in places
where it
> > snows!!!! We have the VERY occasional flurry, but its a momentous
occasion
> > and certainly not regular. The idea of being snowed in and stuff like
that
> > is totally alien to me.
>
> Paul & others in Oz or SA:
>
> I live in the Rocky Mountains & would love to share some of my yearly
> bounty of white stuff with you -- if we can just figure out the
> shipping. For instance, on Oct. 24, 1997 it began to snow on my mtn. &
> by the next morning we had a smidge less than 4' accumulation.
> Embarrassingly, I got my 4-wheel-drive stuck so we were effectively
> snowed in for about 3 days until the snow melted enough to dig the truck
> free. That storm was just the first of many 2', 3' & 4' snows we got
> from Oct. thru April last year -- & of course, it even snowed here on
> June 5th to enliven the Polar Trek, a/k/a the Denver AIS Convention.
> (OK, it was more like white rain & didn't stick, but still...)
>
> This Oct. 24th it was quite sunny & about 65F at my place with no snow
> to date & none likely in the immediate future. In common with much of
> the continental US, we've had a remarkably mild, dry fall so far --
> haven't even had a truly killer frost yet up here, just enough to whack
> the annuals & tenderest perennials. I figure we'll have to pay for this
> later but hope that we can pass on the truly bitter cold (to -35F) we
> sometimes get in Dec-Feb. Given my druthers, I'll take bounteous snow
> over searing cold any time, but then the weather gods rarely listen to
> me.
>
> I've lived in cold climates all my life & when I was younger & crazier,
> I spent much time ice skating, skiing & tubing (sledding on inner tubes)
> -- but at this stage I'd just as soon try a climate with fewer extremes
> of weather!
>
> Marte in the mtns Zone 4/Sunset 1 Colorado/USA -- who will be
> happy to take any warm climate Iris-talkers to see the year-round ice at
> nearby St. Mary's Glacier or a few miles further to Loveland Pass for a
> snowball fight in July...
>
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