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.. my buddies saved truckloads of sea turtles from freezing at the coast near here. The water cooled so rapidly in shallow areas the turtles just shut down. Here's some samples.
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.. this next is at my house Wednesday.
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Three days of ice.. all my beautiful tropical plants and trees ruined. It will take a week of work just to clean up the mess, when it warms up. Probably, most of the lawn will be dead!
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Interesting weather.
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Gus
A. Rentfro
RioBravoReptiles.com
www.riobravoreptiles.com

"Perfectly healthy animals are a minimum requirement.. everything else is just salesmanship" gus

Great to hear of the turtle rescue. Sorry to hear about your plants and trees.

That is a cool pic of the ice though. I know small consolation but...
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BigT
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Really great to hear about people taking the time and putting in the effort to do animal rescues, especially when it's animals already having it's share of problems... hats off them!

Gerry

Sad to hear about your cold but I am glad the turtles were rescued. We got hit real hard with the cold here in South Eastern Arizona. Temperatures plummeted here far below all know records! It was one degree F at my place and there is a report as low as -6 degrees F at one location. The Eucalyptus trees and palm trees were hit real hard. The spineless prickly pear cactus, which is everywhere, has been reduced to piles of mush. Even the native oak trees froze. My turtle ponds have 3-inch thick ice on them. I am sure any local herps, which weren’t pretty deep, froze to death. I won’t know until spring if my tortoises, which were hibernating outside in the ground, made it. Good luck at your place.

Back at you, friend!
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be safe.
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Gus
A. Rentfro
RioBravoReptiles.com
www.riobravoreptiles.com

"Perfectly healthy animals are a minimum requirement.. everything else is just salesmanship" gus