Re: [gardeners]rainfall

Liz Albrook (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 25 May 1998 13:34:50 +0000

George Shirley <gardeners@globalgarden.com> wrote:


> George, who envies the rain everyone else is getting

You and Mom Vinson can have ours!  If it doesn't stop soon we are 
going to be cut off from the rest of the world again.  Here in 
Lewiston there's a hillside giving way -- moving a foot an hour or so 
-- that has the Elks Lodge on top.  I don't particularly care about 
the Elks Lodge but the slide is already blocking a highway.  In fact, 
in every direction out of Lewiston there is tremendous slide danger.  
It's been raining here for days -- we had 1/2 a day yesterday without 
rain and kept wondering what was wrong.

We in Lewiston are in better shape than a lot of places in the state. 
Last year Idaho had a very large number of slides -- some villages 
were cut off from the world for a couple of weeks -- that cost a heck 
of a lot of money to repair.  I figure if this rain doesn't start 
soon we'll be looking at a tax increase just to repair that 
north-south wagon track they call a highway -- the only highway 
linking north and south Idaho.

Liz