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Principia Discordia => Two vast and trunkless legs of stone => Topic started by: Suu on December 29, 2010, 02:27:49 PM

Title: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Suu on December 29, 2010, 02:27:49 PM
...Because I don't think you're getting any.

My brother had to scrape ice off the cars this morning, so good thing we still had one of those in the garage. It's not as cold as it was last year, but it's still killing trees. Current temperature of Tampa Bay is 54 degrees. It's 43 outside. Some parts of the state are currently colder than Boston.


They showed a really scary video from Boston Logan just now and I wailed. Tampa International isn't as bad, but I still have 2 days before I fly out and there's THOUSANDS of flights they're trying to catch up on. Unfortunately I can't afford to stay through New Years, if I get bumped again, I'm going to beg for a refund and see about getting on a flight to Providence last minute or something, but I don't think Southwest is going to be in much better shape than JetBlue. I can take Spirit, but they scare me.


...Can you tell I'm going crazy? I'm going crazy. I should have slept in my own bed last night. *whimper*


Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Sir Squid Diddimus on December 29, 2010, 04:13:58 PM
We had a cold one this year.
Scraped ice off the car a few times. All the grass is dead.
I haven't really looked at the oranges in the yard this year...
eh, there's still some at the top of the tree that the squirrels didn't get to.
I'm sure they froze though. Oh well.
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Adios on December 29, 2010, 04:15:29 PM
As long as I can still get limes for my Coronas.
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: AFK on December 29, 2010, 04:16:59 PM
Do the Clementines come from Florida?  If I don't get my Clementines I'mma gonna go nuclear. 

Also, countdown to Marco Rubio using this prove Global Warming is a hoax in 4, 3, 2, .......
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Sir Squid Diddimus on December 29, 2010, 04:17:42 PM
 :argh!: fuck that guy
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Adios on December 29, 2010, 04:18:31 PM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on December 29, 2010, 04:17:42 PM
:argh!: fuck that guy

You first.  :D
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Suu on December 30, 2010, 01:33:05 AM
Quote from: Charley Brown on December 29, 2010, 04:15:29 PM
As long as I can still get limes for my Coronas.

Not from my yard. They're brown and shriveled. Most orchards we saw on I-4 seemed to be doing okay.

Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on December 29, 2010, 04:16:59 PM
Do the Clementines come from Florida?  If I don't get my Clementines I'mma gonna go nuclear. 


Yes, but New England primarily gets citrus from California and Mexico for some reason...probably because there's some Italian somewhere in a back room controlling shipping fees.


Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Jenne on December 30, 2010, 02:59:40 AM
...we have some really huge citrus farmland around these parts.  But interestingly enough, my local grocery carries them from Mexico our somewhere in South America.  Fucking global produce enterprises, how do they work?
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Suu on December 30, 2010, 03:18:03 AM
Quote from: Jenne on December 30, 2010, 02:59:40 AM
...we have some really huge citrus farmland around these parts.  But interestingly enough, my local grocery carries them from Mexico our somewhere in South America.  Fucking global produce enterprises, how do they work?

Florida doesn't put up with that shit. They don't let the good stuff get out of the state, so the farmstand produce stores around here have amazing stuff. If you move out of the state and drive North on I-95, you have to pull over and have your truck searched for plants that are forbidden to leave the state. I shit you not. (Though a lot of that is also to help control pests, because you don't want that shit we have here either.)
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Jenne on December 30, 2010, 03:25:32 AM
We just have ports of San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco that load it up and bring it in and out.  In and out.  I'm sure there are greased palms and inspections galore, though.  I know we have them interstate and at the border checks.
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Sir Squid Diddimus on December 30, 2010, 03:41:45 AM
Quote from: Charley Brown on December 29, 2010, 04:18:31 PM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on December 29, 2010, 04:17:42 PM
:argh!: fuck that guy

You first.  :D

Can I fuck him with a crowbar... to his temple? Cause if I can, then it's on.
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Phox on December 30, 2010, 03:46:31 AM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on December 30, 2010, 03:41:45 AM
Quote from: Charley Brown on December 29, 2010, 04:18:31 PM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on December 29, 2010, 04:17:42 PM
:argh!: fuck that guy

You first.  :D

Can I fuck him with a crowbar... to his temple? Cause if I can, then it's on.
:lulz:
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Suu on December 30, 2010, 02:28:50 PM
$115 million in damages to crops reported. :(
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Whatever on December 30, 2010, 06:46:46 PM
Quote from: Suu on December 30, 2010, 02:28:50 PM
$115 million in damages to crops reported. :(

Damn! 

Just another year our vitamin C is gonna be in pill form because citrus will be too damned expensive if even available here in the midwest.

Fucking weather.
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Sir Squid Diddimus on December 30, 2010, 06:49:54 PM
You would think that orange growing people would know how to protect their crops from the cold??
WTF. Seriously.

I mean, My neighbor keeps her damn plants alive just by putting a damn sheet over them.
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Adios on December 30, 2010, 06:51:25 PM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on December 30, 2010, 06:49:54 PM
You would think that orange growing people would know how to protect their crops from the cold??
WTF. Seriously.

I mean, My neighbor keeps her damn plants alive just by putting a damn sheet over them.

It would take an awfully big sheet to cover a orange grove.
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Whatever on December 30, 2010, 06:52:01 PM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on December 30, 2010, 06:49:54 PM
You would think that orange growing people would know how to protect their crops from the cold??
WTF. Seriously.

I mean, My neighbor keeps her damn plants alive just by putting a damn sheet over them.

Well, they used to burn the smudge pots but the enviromentalists made them stop. :|
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Eater of Clowns on December 30, 2010, 06:56:04 PM
Squid, if they protected the grove, how would they jack up the prices and then forget to lower them when supply was back up again?
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Suu on December 31, 2010, 03:42:25 AM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on December 30, 2010, 06:49:54 PM
You would think that orange growing people would know how to protect their crops from the cold??
WTF. Seriously.

I mean, My neighbor keeps her damn plants alive just by putting a damn sheet over them.

They ice them, and typically the cold snaps are good for the fruit, but what happened is that LAST YEAR because it was so cold through January, the trees flowered too late, so there's less fruit this year even though the temps aren't nearly as low.
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Sir Squid Diddimus on December 31, 2010, 04:17:20 AM
Temps were just as low this year as last.
We've had more consecutive days of 20's and 30's than last year.

This year was fucking cold.
Last year we had a cold week.
Title: Re: I hope no one REALLY wanted Florida citrus and strawberries again this year.
Post by: Suu on December 31, 2010, 04:22:11 AM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on December 31, 2010, 04:17:20 AM
Temps were just as low this year as last.
We've had more consecutive days of 20's and 30's than last year.

This year was fucking cold.
Last year we had a cold week.

Last year was also El Nino, which means at least you got rain. This year is La Nina. It's cold, and it's dry. Fires are going to be really bad with all the dead brush from last year's snap.