I love the rain so much. I never complain if it rains under any circumstances. We are about to get hammered with a massive storm in the next 5 minutes in Warren, PA and I am glad for that. That's because droughts stink. It is way cheaper to water the grass with rain than with city water! Ha ha.
Kirk Johnson > From: Lee Frelich <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:02:14 -0500 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ENTS] Rain > > > ENTS: > > We finally got some rain in Minneapolis Friday and Saturday--3.5 inches. > Its the first time we had an inch or more of rain at one time for 14 > months. Its probably too late for some sugar maple trees I was looking > at this morning with crowns that are 80% dead. A row of freeman maples > in a median strip turned completely brown last week, but they may not be > dead, we'll see if they put on a new flush of leaves in a few weeks. > Austrian pines have some off-color greenish-brown foliage, spruces have > shed a few branches. Locusts, American basswoods, elms, and red oaks > have some dead branches, but generally it looks like most will survive. > Bur oak is the one species that was not much affected by the long dry > spell. > > The rain was accompanied by the return of tropical humidity and three > tornadoes that went through the western and northern suburbs last night. > The tornadoes seemed to be rather weak, although we don't have official > EF classification from the weather service yet. The rear flank > downdraft just south and west of the tornadoes apparently had 50-100 mph > straightline winds that may have caused as much damage as the tornadoes > themselves. The winds might have hit Wood-Rill, an old-growth > maple-basswood-red oak forest in the western suburbs that we use for > research and class field trips. > > Lee > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
