Hi listers, This is taken from a message from my brother in law,an emergency services person. He married my sister, he is a canadian. Great guy.
is slightly overcast now so may not make the forecast high 80's Our under eve thermometer only reads 80 now at 14.30. We (Red Cross and Emergency Services) are trying to get people to get ready for the La Nina storms this winter. The way things are shaping up, historically we might get up to 5 feet of snow, long periods of below freezing and periods of single digit or below temperatures, something not seen since 1916. Our pacific forecaster in DEM has been very accurate in his long term effect forecast for El Nino and La Nina the last few years. His forecast is backed up by a Portland forecaster. One of the big problems as we saw in 1995 was the sprawl of suburbia has removed the vegetated ground that could absorb the melt off. I have been at the Monroe fair tryting to get people prepared by supplying free preparedness materials. It is comforting to note how many people we talk to have made at least some preparations. Some we ould like to give a gold star!! Some are going to Arizona! The other day the girls that rent part of the pasture cut down a lot of thistle. I told them to leave it by my shredder and I would chop it up. Uh UH! The thistle promptly clogged the shredder and stalled it. I spent the better of an hour clearing it all out. The long fibers clogged the outlet ports and ignored the pounding of the flails. The thistle has been deposited in the back corner of the pasture. PEARS! Our bartlet half of the pear tree is having the best crop ever. I have picked a box and a half already and have a quarter of a garbage can of damaged wind falls. There are still a lot on the upper branches. I have laid out tarps to cushion the fall. The winter pear half of the trees is having about an average crop but not yet ready to pick. I would guess maybe a box from it. One of our canning apple trees has provided two boxes of apples for the food bank and enough for two pies and there are still more to pick. The middle tree is almost ready to pick. Our delicious tree has a lot of quite small apples on it, more than prior years. The crab apple in front has a lot of small apples. Another apple tree there has fruit ripening and rotting on the tree, something I don't recall before. One of the alder trees down there had its leaves curling and some yellow until I watered it three days in a row. After staying green our lawns are getting brown despite infrequent waterings. Of course the weeds are doing great! Raz is enjoying the patch of clover and grass I planted this spring and have been watering. I did this to provide a vegetated barrier between the pasture and the lawn and driveway. Hopefully it will slow down run of and settle out mud and clay that ran off the pasture. Forrest is helping one of his acquaintences work on a rebuilt engine installation. Right now he is tearing apart an old mower for spare parts for a mower he just acquired, worked on and got running. Just got through writing nastygrams. At the fair I picked up a guideline used by the state for providing medical support. Forrest has it until he is 19 but then is inelibile and on his own. HOWEVER the guidelines state that "fleeing Felons" and "persons convicted of welfare fraud" ARE eligible!!!!! There ain't no justice. > Thats about all I have to chat about. John > Dripping in the drizzle on the shores of Puget Sound I saw seven signs of nature in the above that the weather will be different this winter. :-) Bless you Bob Lee -- oozing on the muggy shore of the gulf coast [email protected] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
