Re: Season Ender Oregon Update

Hey Brett forget the hazelnuts........save them for next year..........real
sorry to hear your season is over...........keep the chin up and the bets
on for next year............talk soon .....Wayne

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> From: Orion910@aol.com
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Season Ender Oregon Update
> Date: Friday, August 06, 1999 4:53 PM
> 
> In my 27 years of living I have never seen a true thunderstorm here in
this 
> area.  Last night it happened.  It started off as a few lightning
strikes, no 
> prob, I can deal, then came the rain.  In the first wave we received 1.2 
> inches in 20 minutes.  Lightning and wind not too bad, I was digging
moats 
> around the prospects to keep the water from going underneath the fruit
when 
> my hair stood up on end and lightning struck anly a tenth of a mile away
in 
> the test patch.  Then came a nasty gust of wind followed by the biggest
hail 
> I have ever seen in real life.  I tried to save all the fruit but I
couldn't, 
> The shade structures blew off and that was it.  I couldn't see in the
dark 
> and I couldn't stay in the patch with lighting hitting within 500 feet of
me, 
> I was un-nerved and had to give up, I couldn't save them.  
> This morning I was up at dawn to see what was left, and it wasn't a 
> nightmare.  I videotaped the whole event up to the point when it became 
> obvious this wasn't just a cool storm, and now all leaves are severely 
> damaged, all fruit are cratered and bruised and 1999 is over.  The stats
are 
> on the storm top gust 53 MPH, 2.8 inches of rain in less than one hour,
half 
> inch hail for roughly 5 minutes, and over 100 lightning strikes within
one 
> mile of my home according to the local storm reporting station.  
> My largest fruit was on the 801.5 stelts at an estimated 276 pounds for
the 
> record books.  All but about 5% of my vines were terminated and buried,
so 
> there is littel hope for a reprieve.
> Good luck to the rest of you out there, and I'll get the hazelnuts ready.
 
> Whats everyone planting in 2000?
> Brett  The Pumpkinguru  Hester
> 
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