Re: OT: Weather (was: Re: questions)

Steg Belsky wrote:
>Or Israel.  :-)
>I can still remember my 6th-through-8th grades Hebrew teacher talking
>about _atzei ha-eikaliptus_ and how they are used _leyabeish et habitzot_
>"to dry up swamps".

They'd better be careful..... South Florida years ago imported a eucalyptus
type tree, Melaleuca, for just that purpose, and it worked altogether too
well.  Those "swamps", the Everglades, were the source of their drinking
water; it didn't occur to them that they were a finite resource...  Now
melaleucas are all over the place, and considered a pest.  The State is
trying to extirpate them on public lands, but it's a losing battle until (at
some point) private property owners are also _required_ to get rid of them.
They grow fast, and produce a jillion seeds which are spread by birds.
(bird-poop trees, we called them)  A beautiful tree, but.....