Re: Tire Fire in Northern California
K1MIZE@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 9/23/99 6:35:33 PM EST, cnorman@best.com writes:
>
> << Some areas around here have
> been getting black rain...the soot falling down and coating cars, gardens,
> everything. >>
>
> We didn't get "black rain," but we did get out first good rainfall of the
> season, and I noticed afterwards that my plants had black stuff all over
> them. I'm pretty sure it was just peat dirt, since we generally have a lot
> of it in the air around here. They've been doing some Fall plowing, and the
> fine peaty soils here in the Delta are easily picked up and carried on the
> regular breezes we get in the evenings. (In fact, some of the agricultural
> "islands" in the Delta have lost as much as 25 feet of soil from this cause.)
Kurt
It sounds to me as though farmers in those "islands" are well overdue
for a change of basic technique in preparing their soil.
Moira
--
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata,
New Zealand (astride the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
