In article <rps5l3t4487m577l25urq22o228jmt5ara@4ax.com>, Galen Hekhuis <ghekhuis@earthlink.net> wrote: > Not that I expected any ice. I live in one of the few states (I think > Hawai'i is the only other one) where they don't have any road signs > that say something like the overpass freezes before the rest of the > roadway. Here in Florida we firmly believe that ice belongs in > drinks, not on roads and certainly not on the sidewalk. We had sort > of a freeze here a while ago. I say sort of a freeze, because it got > some plants but not others, shoot, it even got just parts of some > plants. The banana plants got trashed, but right next to them there > is an elephant ear plant that has some leaves that got totally nuked, > but then on the same plant there are leaves that look totally > unscathed. There's another plant (I forget the name) that is > completely fine, until you get about 5 inches up, then it looks like > it got frozen silly. Not far away are the diplodinia, which are kinda > woody and have easily survived frosts before -- they've even kept on > blooming, but they got nailed. It's the freakiest and most uneven > freeze I've ever seen. I've still got dragonflies buzzing over the > pond, too many to count, and there are even some butterflies still > chasing after the flowers that remain. > -- Nice here in Ventura. Gotta love So. Cal. No freeze. I've got Plumerias that still have flowers! Florida without the humidity. ;-) -- To reply by email, remove the word "space"