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Watermelons Everywhere in St. Bernard Parish
WAFB ^ | Dec 22, 2005, 07:00 PM CST | Jim Shannon

Posted on 12/23/2005 10:14:27 AM PST by CajunConservative

This one is puzzling thousands of people. St. Bernard Parish, virtually wiped out following Hurricane Katrina, is seeing the spontaneous growth of watermelons. They're everywhere! It's a post-Katrina phenomenon that has even the experts baffled.

"I've never seen anything like this before," said Dr. Ron Strahan of the LSU Ag Center as he surveyed the watermelon infestation.

The fruit, which is normally planted in April, has been sprouting up all over St. Bernard Parish ever since Katrina. Presumably, the seeds were deposited during the hurricane and unusually high temperatures have produced a natural mystery.

"It's just going to be one of those things we're probably not going to be able to explain," said Strahan.

According to Strahan, the clay in St. Bernard absorbed the sunlight, retaining the heat and allowing the melons to grow. A watermelon's consistency is 90 percent water, which means if you eat the St. Bernard Parish melons, you're drinking Katrina juice.

"I don't think I'd want to eat them," Strahan laughed. "I don't think so, but it's just something unusual to look at, maybe take some pictures of and remember this happened after Katrina 2005 and we'll probably never see again."

Katrina may have planted the melons, but bees had to pollinate them, which indicates that growth is possible in St. Bernard Parish following the storm. Even if it is Katrinan melons.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: katrina; louisiana; miraclemelons; stbernardparish
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To: moog

Johny's relatives, or somebody been doin alot of spittin!!!


41 posted on 12/23/2005 10:44:56 AM PST by djf (Bush wants to make Iraq like America. Solution: Send all illegal immigrants to Iraq!)
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To: txflake

I look DEEPLY askance at Thailand shrimp.

So there is proof that hypnotism works after all.


42 posted on 12/23/2005 10:44:59 AM PST by moog
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To: djf

Johny's relatives, or somebody been doin alot of spittin!!!

Well, they were running out of tobacco.


43 posted on 12/23/2005 10:45:42 AM PST by moog
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To: shield

These folks must of eaten lots of melons in the past...lots of seeds left in the soil. Maybe?

Lots of people forgetting where the bathroom was maybe.


44 posted on 12/23/2005 10:46:28 AM PST by moog
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To: billhilly

barrel carobine.

That sweet carobine.


45 posted on 12/23/2005 10:47:08 AM PST by moog
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To: moog

Johnny's cousin, Willie Watermelonseed.


46 posted on 12/23/2005 10:48:38 AM PST by billhilly (Demo camo is yellow and white)
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To: jjmcgo

My understanding is that the cries of massive pollution were way overblown. I doubt there is a problem eating them.


47 posted on 12/23/2005 10:48:49 AM PST by conservativewasp (Liberals lie for sport and hate our country.)
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To: CajunConservative

The mulch/fertilizer :::GAG::: was good.


48 posted on 12/23/2005 10:48:58 AM PST by Gazoo
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OH COME ON!!! What was said??? This is torture!

You can't remove a comment that someone else called "comment of the year"!

49 posted on 12/23/2005 10:49:06 AM PST by BostonianRightist ("Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue." ~ Senator Goldwater)
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To: billhilly

Johnny's cousin, Willie Watermelonseed.

I heard that he wrote the song Seedy Sidewalks. I did hear though that he was going unemployed because of the prevalence of seedless watermelons and the disgust of people about having little fesces in their garden ponds.


50 posted on 12/23/2005 10:50:29 AM PST by moog
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To: conservativewasp

My understanding is that the cries of massive pollution were way overblown.

Yes, the wind blew it all the way to Oklahoma.


51 posted on 12/23/2005 10:51:26 AM PST by moog
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To: moog

I was also thinking of that. Hoping after eating melons in the backyard folks just spit the seeds into their lawns.


52 posted on 12/23/2005 10:51:26 AM PST by shield (The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instructions.Pr 1:7)
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To: shield

Hoping after eating melons in the backyard folks just spit the seeds into their lawns

Why do that when you can give people a lot of crap?


53 posted on 12/23/2005 10:52:07 AM PST by moog
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To: HostileTerritory

"Marxist environmentalists."

What other kind is there?


54 posted on 12/23/2005 10:52:28 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: BostonianRightist

OH COME ON!!! What was said??? This is torture!

You can't remove a comment that someone else called "comment of the year"!


That's a moderate response if I've ever heard one.


55 posted on 12/23/2005 10:53:21 AM PST by moog
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To: moog

You've come up with some good zingers, you hitting the egg nog early? ;)


56 posted on 12/23/2005 10:53:47 AM PST by CajunConservative (Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Jindal.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

What other kind is there?

hunters.


57 posted on 12/23/2005 10:53:48 AM PST by moog
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To: CajunConservative

Had the watermelon fight at the house a few years back. The next season was a bumper crop in every corner of the yard.


58 posted on 12/23/2005 10:53:49 AM PST by SquirrelKing
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To: CajunConservative

You've come up with some good zingers, you hitting the egg nog early? ;)

Ate the hostess a little too much. Actually, I'm in one of my weird moods and have nothing better to do--well I do, but I'm not. :)


60 posted on 12/23/2005 10:54:42 AM PST by moog
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