Re: Flower Day question...

From: Jeff <jeff.kyer_at_...>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 13:30:00 -0000

• In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_y...> wrote:
  > --- Mike Dawson <mdawson_at_m...> wrote:
  >
  > > In my garden I've got some potatoes that I haven't
  > > bothered to harvest for what I guess is 18 months.
  > >
  > > That 18 months included one of the hardest winters
  > > we've had here in Virginia, and
  > > also one of the mildest.
  > >...
  >
  > > Now, where I am we don't get frost heave, but we do
  > > get temps down to 0 now and then.
  >
  > If you only just get down to freezing, that sounds a
  > lot warmer than Britain, much less Dragon Pass.
  >
  > (Though I have no idea what "frost heave" is: can
  > anyone enlighten me?)
  >
  Water under the surface freezes. The freeze-thaw cycle slowly forces harder substances to the surface as it resists the expanding water. Frost heave is a destroyer of roads in the northern lattitudes when water gets trapped under the pavement-concrete-etc.

Jeff