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Fire danger in Texas
"Lesley" wrote in message ... On Apr 20, 1:18 pm, Winnie wrote: Thanks. The wind is howling with a wind gust of 63km/hr There is a winter storm warning. So I will stay put at home.- The more I hear about American weather the happier I am to be in England! We don't get extremes of weather, today is a lovely spring day Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Don't forget. This is one state out of 50, and there is tremendous variation in climate and geographical features across the U.S. In fact, this one state (I live in East Texas) is so large that the weather in this area would seem absolutely gorgeous to you this spring if you were just considering what is "comfortable"-- beautiful blue skies, fantastic flowers, etc. However, the entire state has been under drought, so you would see the results of that in much of the state. If you were to travel to another state, you would see something entirely different; and everything would depend on the season and the region of the nation. In this area, the azaleas stopped blooming a couple of weeks ago, and I have planted lots of seasonal bedding plants. By contrast, my sister lives in Ohio, and they still have snow. MaryL |
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Fire danger in Texas
"hopitus" wrote in message ... On Apr 20, 7:16 am, "MaryL" wrote: "hopitus" wrote in message ... On Apr 19, 11:33 am, MLB wrote: The newscast said east Texas has forest wild fires. We are sending purrs for rain to help put them out. We are also purring for the safety of those who fight the fires. MLB It has rained all yesterday, all night, and half of today. We are in hog heaven and my happiest thing is that the air outside doesn't stink like smoke anymore. The bad news: in two days it will be all dried up, again. The good news: in spite of this craziness of weather spring flowers and plants are in sight all over the area. There are two species of flowers I never thought I'd see again when I moved he bouganvilla and roses. Both thrive here, I dunno why. Reminds me of that old Bette Midler song. Can't remember the name, but it meant nothing where I came from (about a rose emerging from frozen ground) it means a lot here, LOL. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - No rain here. I live in East Texas, and it is still extremely dry. Our county has now been placed on a fire ban/alert. There are wild fires in most counties of the state (but nothing close to me, at this point--not even smoke). MaryL Glad you're ok. I live on outskirts of MileHigh but in urban setting nowhere near any of the fires, but if the fires are large enough (and two are) the strong winds bring us the gifts of smoke smell and fog (I like fog; English people I knew told me that was what gave them their beautiful complexions). Too late for that for me, but any moisture is good moisture around here. One fact adding to the dry situation is CO's "snowpack" in the mountains was very high where they go skiing (the famous resorts) but very *low* snowpack on the part that MileHigh gets its water supplies from runoffs of the snowpacks in warm weather. Now the water cops (do you believe) will be patrolling lawn-watering. Luckily they don't patrol condo decks; Snaggly and I now have an array of geraniums out there already. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Colorado is a beautiful state. My first visit was years ago, when I was a graduate assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A group of us drove out for the Colorado-Nebraska football game, and we spent a day driving through the mountains. I have been there many times since, and we always seemed to focus on mountainous areas of the state. Gorgeous! MaryL |
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