Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:22 PM 4/21/2007, you wrote: >In my 77 years, I have never seen this situation before. In >Tennessee, the governor is trying to see if he can get disaster aid >for the farmers and fruit growers, and I have heard that the >situation is similar in the Carolinas. > >Jim Nichols >Tullahoma, TN USA Yes, it is a disaster here in the Carolinas. 100% of the peach crop is gone. At my farm we lost peaches, apples, figs, pears - I don't know if any of them will come back. The fig bushes - some as big as a house - look totally dead. My Japanese maple, which was beautiful with spring leaves, now has dead tags hanging all over the tree. Huge hickory trees in the forest are totally brown. There is a big peach orchard just up the road and I talked to the woman there who said they lost every single tree. There will be no South Carolina peaches this year. :-( Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com