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From: djheydt@kithrup.com
In article <1g0lfmtirbmh.jnrxjr3zzi7f$.dlg@40tude.net>,
mimus99 wrote:
>maGGOn Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:33:21 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>
>> mimus99 writes:
>>>On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 02:50:49 +0000 (UTC), Contrarian wrote:
>>>
>>>> In alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk mimus99 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Seems Northern California got a lot of warm rain in December, which gave
>>>>> 'em a bumper-crop of _ Amanita phalloides _, which took fourteen people
out
>>>>> (one died).
>>>
>>> Cali has about 50 cases per year on average, one death every other year,
>>> liver-transplants frequently indicated.
>>
>> Where is Cali?
Perhaps that's a typo for where "IN" California?
>
>Southwest Coast of the US, on the Pacific.
See my post upthread for where IN California the poisonings tend
to occur.
>It never rains in Southern Cali,
Not true; and when it does rain, there are problems, as flooding
in Los Angeles because the storm sewers are inadequate, and
mudslides that have followed wildfires because it hasn't rained
for a while till now.
>and it never stops in Northern.
Heh. We have just had ONE rainy winter after a drought lasting
five or six years, I forget which. As I understand it, in other
parts of the US, the Midwest for instance, if it hasn't rained in
a week and a half they call it a drought. Around here, we call it
a drought when it hasn't rained, not even in the winter, for two
or three years. I remember in the last drought but one, seeing a
skiing-supplies store that had made a mannequin by stuffing
padding into a set of skiing clothes, and positioning it in the
display window, on its knees, hands folded in an attitude of
prayer.
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Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
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Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
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