--------------B6515DC0C2CBA00A27A1EA97 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jane Burdekin wrote: > Good luck Ron, I sure hope everything doesn't get washed away. We > are so dry here, you should share just a little bit of that rain. We > did get 3" of snow on Saturday but by Sunday afternoon, there was not > a trace of it and I was out pulling weeds. Take care. Janezone 5 > Colorado > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Hay [mailto:ronhay@pacbell.net] > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 8:56 AM > To: gardeners > Subject: [gardeners] Rough Weather in the Southland > > Good morning, friends, > > Just when we thought the last of the rainy season was behind > us, we experienced a true deluge of almost Biblical > proportions. > > The weather service had predicted heavy rain, but by > daybreak yesterday, nada. Then it came! It poured and poured > all day long, flooding intersections, causing scores of > accidents on our rain/grease-slickened roads all over Los > Angeles. We must have recieved an inch per hour at times, > here in the San Fernando Valley. Then, just as it approached > dinner time, it cleared up and the sun came out. The fruit > trees were almost bent double with the weight of the rain > and the growing fruit, and the macadmia looked as if it > would snap in half (Viv's ex hose certainly came in handy > then, as we had staked and tied it with them). The tomatoes > which were growing like topsy looked about to sad and > bedraggled. We felt lucky not to have received any hail. But > that was at dinnertime. > > Last night, twice, enormous thunder storm cells passed over > us. One big one came at about 1:30, lighting up the sky, > causing the welkin to ring with the clang of Thor's hammer. > But the worst was yet to come. At about 3:30 a cell passed > over us with rain so loud it awakened us. We checked for > leaks (none, thank goodness!) and then checked the street in > front of our home (our doorstep is only about 9 inches above > ground level). It was roiling, but, characteristically, > draining beautifully. (The lady across the street, who has > lived in her home for 40 years, said to us, when we moved > in, "You probably won't appreciate this until the rainy > season, but unlike other streets and major roads around > here, our street never floods." Halleluljah!) > > If things looked sad and bedraggled yesterday, they looked > far worse today. It's still raining too hard to go out, but > I hope things are better than they seem. All that work!! > > I just said to myself this morning, it's out of our control; > at least we don't depend on the crops for our livlihood. > Maybe I am being overly pessiminstic. I hope I am, becuause > things really look battered and bruised. > > Time, after work, to assess the damage and deal with it:( > > Ron > Van Nuys, CA > > Hello, Jane, and hello to my other gardening friends who were so very kindly concerned. The damage was nowhere as severe as I had anticpated. A brace here and a stake there, and removing a few callas that looked truly battered, and everything appears to be in good order. Even the fertilizer I had put on my burgeoning roses seems largely to have washed in (small wonder!). And to those of my gardening friends who observe either Easter or Passover, a Blessed Pesach and a very Happy Easter:) Ron --------------B6515DC0C2CBA00A27A1EA97 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">Jane Burdekin wrote:
Good luck Ron, I sure hope everything doesn't get washed away. We are so dry here, you should share just a little bit of that rain. We did get 3" of snow on Saturday but by Sunday afternoon, there was not a trace of it and I was out pulling weeds. Take care. Janezone 5 Colorado-----Original Message-----Good morning, friends,
From: Ron Hay [mailto:ronhay@pacbell.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 8:56 AM
To: gardeners
Subject: [gardeners] Rough Weather in the Southland
Just when we thought the last of the rainy season was behind us, we experienced a true deluge of almost Biblical proportions.
The weather service had predicted heavy rain, but by daybreak yesterday, nada. Then it came! It poured and poured all day long, flooding intersections, causing scores of accidents on our rain/grease-slickened roads all over Los Angeles. We must have recieved an inch per hour at times, here in the San Fernando Valley. Then, just as it approached dinner time, it cleared up and the sun came out. The fruit trees were almost bent double with the weight of the rain and the growing fruit, and the macadmia looked as if it would snap in half (Viv's ex hose certainly came in handy then, as we had staked and tied it with them). The tomatoes which were growing like topsy looked about to sad and bedraggled. We felt lucky not to have received any hail. But that was at dinnertime.
Last night, twice, enormous thunder storm cells passed over us. One big one came at about 1:30, lighting up the sky, causing the welkin to ring with the clang of Thor's hammer. But the worst was yet to come. At about 3:30 a cell passed over us with rain so loud it awakened us. We checked for leaks (none, thank goodness!) and then checked the street in front of our home (our doorstep is only about 9 inches above ground level). It was roiling, but, characteristically, draining beautifully. (The lady across the street, who has lived in her home for 40 years, said to us, when we moved in, "You probably won't appreciate this until the rainy season, but unlike other streets and major roads around here, our street never floods." Halleluljah!)
If things looked sad and bedraggled yesterday, they looked far worse today. It's still raining too hard to go out, but I hope things are better than they seem. All that work!!
I just said to myself this morning, it's out of our control; at least we don't depend on the crops for our livlihood. Maybe I am being overly pessiminstic. I hope I am, becuause things really look battered and bruised.
Time, after work, to assess the damage and deal with it:(
Ron
Van Nuys, CA
Hello, Jane, and hello to my other gardening friends who were so
very kindly concerned.
The damage was nowhere as severe as I had anticpated. A brace here and a stake there, and removing a few callas that looked truly battered, and everything appears to be in good order. Even the fertilizer I had put on my burgeoning roses seems largely to have washed in (small wonder!).
And to those of my gardening friends who observe either Easter or Passover, a Blessed Pesach and a very Happy Easter:)
Ron
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