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You must have some nerve saying that after a record warm autumn for the eastern U.S. Damage vegetation? Who are you kidding? These are not coconut palms we are talking about. They can handle a couple days of below average temperatures.
I can voice my opinion I have no problem with snow but extreme cold I don't like. I have some nerve?? after coming out of one of the coldest Februaries ever and the year before we saw a cold march and January. There is no such thing as I got some nerve, I like warm not extreme weather, there is nothing wrong with that if it bothers you then im sorry get over it. no one cried when snj and aj cursed up a storm because it was too warm. and im talking about vegetation down here. is it wrong for me hoping that some of the more tender plants planted here survive????
16 degrees with 25 mph NNW winds at only 6:30 in the evening; quite a shock to the system to say the least! This is our first teens of the season in the last hour or so, and at this rate we may even have our first single digits in the exact same night!
I don't see why what's best for vegetation should trump what's best for people, since single digit cold is hardly inimical to human life. Besides, plenty of vegetation does just fine in winters much colder than anywhere in the lower 48 has ever recorded; the taiga is the world's largest terrestrial bioregion, and thrives even in places where -90F has been recorded. If some plants get too cold they will over time simply be replaced by others that don't, and their range will move closer to the equator.
It is a law of nature over geologic time, a constant in the history of the world: vegetation zones, including every single one that was in your location before the one that's there now, change, move, rise, and go extinct. They are meant to do so as part of how the natural world works, so rooting for it to work in your favor isn't something anyone should condemn.
That goes for everyone here, not just our poster from North Carolina. There is nothing wrong with him wishing for mild wintertime lows in the wake of a warm autumn.
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