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Xipe Totec
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Mon Jan-15-07 10:03 PM Original message |
IHT: Freezing temperatures destroy most of California citrus crop |
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MadMaddie
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Mon Jan-15-07 10:08 PM Response to Original message |
1. Which means we will be eating oranges from Australia... |
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Xipe Totec
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Mon Jan-15-07 10:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Clementines from Spain... |
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kestrel91316
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Tue Jan-16-07 12:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
37. Nope. I will do without. So should you. EAT LOCALLY, or as |
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Cleita
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Mon Jan-15-07 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
2. Oh God it's been cold. My pelargonium (geraniums) are |
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Xipe Totec
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Mon Jan-15-07 10:37 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Double whammy, |
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Cleita
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Mon Jan-15-07 10:47 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Yep, the labor is all gone it seems. n/t |
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hatrack
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Mon Jan-15-07 11:08 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Of course, John McCain said Americans wouldn't pick fruit for $50/hour |
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aquart
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Mon Jan-15-07 11:31 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Did anyone advertise fruit-picking at $50 an hour? |
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Theres-a
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Tue Jan-16-07 11:53 AM Response to Reply #15 |
36. Me too! |
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aquart
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Mon Jan-15-07 11:30 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. We're just so endlessly clever. |
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Lasher
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Tue Jan-16-07 04:10 AM Response to Reply #2 |
26. Your California weather got delivered here to West Virginia by mistake |
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Thor_MN
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Tue Jan-16-07 07:56 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Happy Birthday, Lasher |
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Lasher
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Tue Jan-16-07 09:30 AM Response to Reply #28 |
32. Why thank you Thor. |
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Cleita
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Tue Jan-16-07 12:50 PM Response to Reply #26 |
39. That's one good thing here in CA. I fight spiders for control of |
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kestrel91316
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Tue Jan-16-07 01:08 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Yep. Those damned Argentine ants have vanished, too! |
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Cleita
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Tue Jan-16-07 01:41 PM Response to Reply #40 |
48. They're underground right now. I just dug up a nest of them |
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Lasher
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Tue Jan-16-07 01:11 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Maybe the spiders are not so bad. |
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Cleita
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Tue Jan-16-07 01:39 PM Response to Reply #41 |
46. LOL! I don't evict all of them. I allow one or two webs of harmless |
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eowyn_of_rohan
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Tue Jan-16-07 01:49 PM Response to Reply #2 |
50. Here in Wisconsin, my geraniums started coming up |
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Olney Blue
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Mon Jan-15-07 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
5. This is really bad news. |
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kineneb
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Mon Jan-15-07 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
7. It has been damned cold |
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kestrel91316
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Tue Jan-16-07 01:11 PM Response to Reply #7 |
42. Pipes are freezing and breaking all over Los Angeles, and the leaked |
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Gormy Cuss
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Tue Jan-16-07 01:29 PM Response to Reply #7 |
44. What some in colder parts of the country may not register is that our housing isn't built for this. |
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kineneb
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Wed Jan-17-07 11:53 AM Response to Reply #44 |
53. that's the point |
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LiberalFighter
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Mon Jan-15-07 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
8. It's Arnold Schwarzenager's fault |
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951-Riverside
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Mon Jan-15-07 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
9. Damn global warming n/t |
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msongs
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Mon Jan-15-07 11:18 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. all our citrus/avocados are fine - the hibiscus and plumeria look sad tho |
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Psephos
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Mon Jan-15-07 11:29 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Hibiscus "wilts" below 40 degrees, but no harm done unless it freezes |
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Cleita
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Mon Jan-15-07 11:35 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Last couple of nights it's been below 30 for a few hours where I live here |
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Psephos
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Tue Jan-16-07 02:23 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Brrrrr |
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antiimperialist
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Tue Jan-16-07 01:08 AM Response to Reply #9 |
20. Are you a global warming denier? |
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Hekate
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Tue Jan-16-07 02:32 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. That's a weird question. I live on Calif's Central Coast too, and it got down to 25 last night |
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Cleita
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Tue Jan-16-07 12:47 PM Response to Reply #22 |
38. I'm up the coast from you in San Luis Obispo county and |
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kestrel91316
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Tue Jan-16-07 01:13 PM Response to Reply #9 |
43. GW >>>>> widespread climate change/destabilization >>>>> |
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Wheezy
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Mon Jan-15-07 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
12. Phoenix too |
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Bobbieo
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Mon Jan-15-07 11:54 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Same with Yuma - It's has been freezing for two nites!!! |
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kskiska
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Mon Jan-15-07 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
17. This shouldn't bother the FReeps at all. |
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XemaSab
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Tue Jan-16-07 12:04 AM Response to Original message |
19. The banana trees all look like hell here |
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musiclawyer
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Tue Jan-16-07 02:25 PM Response to Reply #19 |
52. Bananas won't die |
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Sen. Walter Sobchak
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Tue Jan-16-07 02:34 AM Response to Original message |
23. I just got back from Canada... |
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barb162
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Tue Jan-16-07 02:42 AM Response to Original message |
24. It doesn't kill the trees though,does it? |
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mcscajun
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Tue Jan-16-07 09:06 AM Response to Reply #24 |
31. No, it hasn't yet killed the trees, thankfully. |
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Nothing Without Hope
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Tue Jan-16-07 03:45 AM Response to Original message |
25. ***Big article and video link for this in the LA TIMES today:*** |
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JCMach1
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Tue Jan-16-07 06:12 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. It can indeed kill the trees |
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Marrah_G
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Tue Jan-16-07 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
29. On the flipside |
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Le Taz Hot
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Tue Jan-16-07 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
30. The farmers' worries are now extended |
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slackmaster
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Tue Jan-16-07 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
33. A round of Orange Juliuses for the house |
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AngryAmish
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Tue Jan-16-07 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
34. Way to go, Bush! |
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doodadem
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Tue Jan-16-07 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
35. We're freezing our asses off here in central Calif.! |
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Duer 157099
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Tue Jan-16-07 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
45. I brought my lemon and lime trees into the garage |
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sakabatou
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Tue Jan-16-07 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
47. I've had to wear a sweatshirt to bed at night... |
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Cleita
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Tue Jan-16-07 01:43 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. Me too, in spite of the electric blanket and cat to keep me warm! |
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High Plains
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Tue Jan-16-07 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
51. All your citrus are belong to us! |
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