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Got the Contributing Memberships stuff finally worked out and made up a thread as a sort of "How-To" to help people figure out how to participate. So if you need help figuring it out, here's the thread you need to take a look at -> http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3581 Thank you, everyone! Rich Z.
Rain today
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Yeah, same here. Last appreciable rain was on 07-29. But the last couple of days we did have short periods of heavy clouds moving in and a light sprinkle. Just enough to put witness marks on the concrete that evaporated in a minute or less.
With the high heat, we are having to water the citrus trees to keep them from dehydrating and stunting the growth of the fruits. I actually got a couple dozen fruits off of one of the asian pear trees. The funk that killed off a lot of new growth on the biggest asian pear and all of the normally producing regular pear trees in back of the garage didn't make for a total loss of the asian pears. The regular pear, however, are a total loss. Something going around the area, it seems, as I have seen another pear tree a few miles away with the same problem, and a friend of mine further out says his neighbor has the same problem with his pear trees. Always something....
With the high heat, we are having to water the citrus trees to keep them from dehydrating and stunting the growth of the fruits. I actually got a couple dozen fruits off of one of the asian pear trees. The funk that killed off a lot of new growth on the biggest asian pear and all of the normally producing regular pear trees in back of the garage didn't make for a total loss of the asian pears. The regular pear, however, are a total loss. Something going around the area, it seems, as I have seen another pear tree a few miles away with the same problem, and a friend of mine further out says his neighbor has the same problem with his pear trees. Always something....
Sure hope that doesn't hit here. When the citrus are ripe, it's the highlight of the year for us. Second best time is when the flowers are all blooming and the fragrance makes us just want to sit among the trees breathing it in. Hopefully we are isolated enough that the insects that carry the pathogen don't infest our trees.
CHASZ51
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I had the best orange tree when i moved here in 04 and it started to die from the top down in 05. Re planted in 2010 and it never did grow and dug it up and gave up.
We have had some close brushes with what looked like pretty good storms over the last few days, but only got what wouldn't even count as being a sprinkle of raindrops out of them. Storms will literally come from any point on the compass, evaporate when they get to us, then reform on the other side. There must be some sort of invisible mountain range around us putting us in the rain shadow of that geological feature.
85vette
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We got caught right smack dab in the eye of that hurricane last week when it came through Pennsylvania. A lot of rain, a little wind, lots of flooded streets! Wouldn't you know, we drive all over the nation and Canada, staying away from the hurricanes in Florida, only to run into one in the northeast!
:ack2: :ack2:
Yesterday it was gloomy as hell here nearly all day long, but we only got 0.14" of rain out of it. Thunder all around and just sprinkles from around noontime till just before nightfall. Yuch...
85vette
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We’ve run into a good bit of rain this summer mostly in the northern plains. I even drove into a tornado in June. It was in Nebraska at about 1:30 in the morning. It was windy from the southwest all day with spotty thunderstorms, nothing looked very threatening on the radar. Not much traffic on Interstate 80 westbound and I was only running about 68 mph due to the constant 30-40 mph winds. I started up a bridge and could see two other trucks ahead of me about a quarter mile. A sign on the bridge said wind gusts could be present. About that time the other two trucks slowed drastically and we got hit with about a 60 mph gust of wind. The other trucks had pulled to the side of the road on top of the bridge. I slowed to a crawl but I stayed in the center of the road thinking if I was going to get blown over I wanted to be blown over on the road, not over the bridge! Then the gust stopped and the truck started shaking and from the left side came a wall of water, but it was spinning horizontally! The shaking and the howling woke my wife up and she came out of the sleeper asking what was going on. I told her to hold on to something because I was still afraid we were going over. It hit us then and we couldn’t see anything for what seemed like a long time but it was a few seconds I’m sure. Then it was gone and the southwest wind was back. The fact that we were in a heavily loaded truck is probably all that saved us. That and the prayers that I was praying! I’m sure that was a small tornado but that’s the second one I’ve been close to in my life and I don’t care to be near another one!
Damn! Yeah, I bet that did take a few years off of your life!
Seeing a waterspout off of Englewood Beach a long LONG time ago is what originally got me interested in photography. It was such an amazing sight and I wished I had had some way to capture that memory. Of course, never had more than glancing blows at seeing one again since then. But still I don't want to be all THAT close to one! Seeing one from a nice safe distance using a telephoto lens is just fine with me. Never ever had any desire to be an actual tornado chaser. Sometimes they chase back and they can bite pretty hard!
Had a pretty good storm come in a bit after 3 pm and dumped 0.98" of rain.
Rest of this week is looking like it will be pretty wet around here.
Too bad my watermelon crop was a bust (again!) this year. :dead: Beats the heck out of me what I am doing wrong. They looked pretty good on the outside. I even left them on the vine till the vine itself turned brown and withered away. But when we cut them open, they were just light pink with an extremely thick rind. Seeds were mostly fully formed and black, so they seemed to be ripe. But the flesh was definitely not ripe and inedible. Oh well.... At least they didn't explode open like they have done in the past, so maybe I am getting closer to figuring this out. Or maybe not... :shrug01:
Only fruit trees we have working right now are the citrus. It will be a few more months before they are good to go.
Rest of this week is looking like it will be pretty wet around here.
Too bad my watermelon crop was a bust (again!) this year. :dead: Beats the heck out of me what I am doing wrong. They looked pretty good on the outside. I even left them on the vine till the vine itself turned brown and withered away. But when we cut them open, they were just light pink with an extremely thick rind. Seeds were mostly fully formed and black, so they seemed to be ripe. But the flesh was definitely not ripe and inedible. Oh well.... At least they didn't explode open like they have done in the past, so maybe I am getting closer to figuring this out. Or maybe not... :shrug01:
Only fruit trees we have working right now are the citrus. It will be a few more months before they are good to go.