In article ,
Pat Meadows wrote:

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:34:52 -0500, Phaedrine Stonebridge
wrote:



Wow, how weird! There has been a lot of weird weather lately. We've
only been in this home for a year and a month now and, in that short
time, have lost several 30-40 foot trees to storms. I wish we had a
Franklin stove though we do have an inefficient fireplace. Regards,


One of the main effects of global warming is more erratic
weather: more frequent storms, more intense storms.

Pat


Our government may say that there is no global warming but the insurance
industry knows better. I read that insurance companies are busy
excluding (or dramatically raising the rates for) such things as hail
damage, flooding, tornado damage, crop failure due to excess heat, and
all kinds of other things.

When we moved back to Missouri (Z 5b) last year after being gone nearly
five years, I noticed a big change in plantings and local nursery stock
with a huge increase in what used to be zone 6 plants. And it's not
just new, more tolerant cultivars either. It used to be that buxus was
fairly rare, something you had to really baby over the winter or seen
only at the botanical gardens. Now you see boxwoods everywhere,
flourishing--- the very same Korean (and other) boxwoods that would not
grow here ten years ago. The ones in our yard are just gorgeous with no
pampering at all.

But maybe it is just a normal cyclical variation. Yeah, that's the
ticket. Sure.

Phae