Re: Phlox
- Subject: Re: Phlox
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:49:40 EST
In a message dated 2/17/03 1:06:00 PM Eastern Standard Time,
mygarden@easystreet.com writes:
> central & eastern Oregon are really hurting. Is you snowpack drinking water
> for NYC by any chance? :) :)
Probably. It could supply the whole US and South America too, this year. We
will have spring floods from the mountains this spring. There is already
trouble on some streams. It is just that we have more than our share, we
seem to have everyone else's share as well.
You watch that long wormy looking graphic called the jet stream on WeatherTV
and no matter which way it twists, it ends up in the Northeast. Thus, a
region of complainers is created, whining about it being the only outlet for
being cooped up from bad roads.
We did go into the winter with pretty good water reserves though previous
years have taught us that it is a good idea to keep restrictions. My
particular section which is between two mountain ranges was sort of wet last
year while severe drought was both north and south of us.
A good thing about the Northeast is that we border Quebec, Canada.
Hydro-Quebec has lots of power to spare so we buy power from them. We also
buy vegetables and fruits from Quebec. They have lots of reserves. The
droughts here impact the home gardeners (and those lawn sprinkler folks) but
do not affect drinking water reserves seriously. NYC owns half of NY and
covers it with water systems, large reservoirs all over the Hudson Valley.
This may be our good fortune as we have more rainfall naturally plus NY and
New England have had many years to deal with water problems with a population
that does not change.
Every time one travels west of the Mississippi, water considerations are
found. Not to say water is never a problem, here, but a lot of backup is in
place. Summing up Marilyn, you are on point there, so I hope you have a lot
of snow in your mountains. Was a sort of facetious remark, we are SICK of
snow. BTW, the usual weekly story from the guys who price the gasoline is
that this weather in the Northeast has done it again. We are paying 1.70 per
gallon at Mobil stations and a two to three cents less at others. I have
also seen the first "out-of-gas" signs in a while.
Not much to do with phlox but there are forced tulips to look at. Also those
"The Garden in Winter" books.<VBG>
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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