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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

I think the official word is that our drought conditions are over or at 
least almost over.  Area lakes are full for the first time in years, and 
as I have reported, even my creek ran for a few days this month-the 
first time in 4+years.  It was colder than normal early, in Oct and Nov, 
then December was warm.  We had a lot of rain in December, which for us 
caught us up and took out the hazard for fires, at least for now. 
That's a huge BONUS when you live in a frame house in the National
Forest<g>. The first part of this month was super cold, now it is super 
warm.  It was 60 yesterday, 52 right now.  It is predicted to be warm 
for the next month! which will mean that everything will break dormancy 
and then it will turn cold again and kill everything.  I predict a no 
fruit year.
Our last frost date is usually about March 30 or so, but we had the 
"Storm of the Century" AKA the Blizzard pop through here in mid-March of 
1993 dropping several feet of snow, so I think this year might be one of 
those 'late' winters.

outwest4us AT yahoo.com wrote:
> We've not had a great winter so far either...not enough snow and even
> a couple days of rain. We too are worried about fires....lake and
> river levels too.

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will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the
world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone
are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve
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