Canadian Gardening: What's Happening in Your neighborhood-visit with friends #20, 1 by Lilypon

Lilypon wrote:
Hope the red area shown below received rain from some of the storms that have blown through...........I spoke to Betts at Plato awhile ago (she's in the red) and they are just sick about the drought in that area. We drove up to Leader and I couldn't believe how incredibly dry the grass looked (and that was back in May). Betts and Wilf have a huge herd of cattle and a large grain farm (I don't know what they will be/have been feeding their cattle and I have my doubts there will be any crop to take off). In the Dirty Thirties that area did very well (Betts and Wilf now own my grandparents farm).


Hope this link works: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/video/weather_news/4 (heartbreaking report re prairie drought in 2002)
and BC forest fires http://www.theweathernetwork.com/video/weather_news/5 (past fire but puts a human face on it)


Please turn your fans and blow those rain filled Ontario clouds west!

I know Kelowna will appreciate it too (one of my co-workers has a son with family living there.......his wife's mother lives only blocks from the fire...she's been evacuated).




This message was edited Jul 21, 2009 1:55 AM