Well, I don't know what I did to deserve this, but we have gotten cold around here. I know, I know. I generally pipe in with how nice the weather is year 'round and all, but I have had to cancel two tennis dates and I couldn't get anyone to go waterskiing with me last week because it has been so darn cold. Sheesh. I don't know how you folks deal with this stuff..
I got up to snap a picture of the ICE on the cover of my spa this morning, but by time I got dressed warmly enough to go out, and warmed up the lens filter on my camera so it would stop fogging over, the ICE was gone. Sorry.
Here's a headline from the Ventura County Star:
[size=16]Frigid temperatures hit $1 billion citrus industry[/size]State official to inspect damage to county cropsBy
Marjorie Hernandez, and Stephanie Hoops, mhernandez@VenturaCountyStar.com; shoops@VenturaCountyStar.com
January 15, 2007
Another day of record cold temperatures crumpled crops, burst pipes and closed roads Sunday around Ventura County.
So far, the frigid air has struck hardest at the state's $1 billion citrus industry. The secretary of the state Department of Food and Agriculture, A.G. Kawamura, planned to visit Ventura County today to inspect damage to citrus crops. He will tour a packing house and orchard.
"It was a very bad night," Nancy Lungren, a department spokeswoman, said Sunday.
Camarillo's temperature dipped to
27 degrees early Sunday, breaking a record low of 31 set in 1962. Sunday's low was 19 degrees in Ojai, 21 in Fillmore, 25 in Thousand Oaks and 28 in Ventura.
Damage to citrus groves in the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California was "widespread" and "significant," Lungren said. The full impact won't be known until inspectors have a chance to check fruit picked after the cold snap began Friday. [/font]
