RE: [gardeners] Thursday [but not] in the garden
L. Neuru (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:05:37 -0500
yes, but it ain't on a river, a cliff or near enough to the beach to get
covered at the highest tide, even in a storm. Last winter some of the beach
houses were washed over by waves 3x their height.
I grew up on the coast; I know better.
Lucinda
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardeners@globalgarden.com
[mailto:owner-gardeners@globalgarden.com]On Behalf Of Margaret
Lauterbach
Sent: February 20, 2003 11:45 AM
To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
Subject: Re: [gardeners] Thursday [but not] in the garden
That must be a miserable situation. Your retirement home is in NS, isn't
it? Margaret L
>Well, spring is springing here too. It's going to be plus 1 today and the
>snow is melting, where it is hit by the sun. We don't have much cover,
just
>very frozen. It's been to cold to snow.
>
>We have been watching the situation in Badger, Newfoundland...dam broke
>upriver, and the broken ice came downstream from 3 (count'em) rivers and
>into the town. Then it froze, up to the doorknobs in most places. It is
>going to be months before it properly thaws, but ice does move, and it is,
>carrying many homes off as if they were in a big glacier (which I guess
that
>is sort of what it is). This is the strangest thing we have ever heard of.
>
>Lucinda