mleblanca expounded:

That's enough now; it's good to be back online and reading
rec.gardens again

Well, Emilie, I'm glad you didn't suffer more damage. I have to say,
sounds like the Blizzard of 78 we had. They thought it was an out of
season hurricane - it's rather strange having thunder and lightning
during a blizzard! We had three to four feet of snow around here from
that one.
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Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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