Beware of the mulch!!
>
> If you use mulch around your house be very careful about buying mulch this
> year. After the Hurricane in New Orleans many trees were blown over.
> These
> trees were then turned into mulch and the state is trying to get rid of
> tons
> and tons of this mulch to any state or company who will come and haul it
> away. So it will be showing up in Home Depot and Lowes at dirt cheap
> prices
> with one huge problem; Formosan Termites will be the bonus in many of
> those
> bags. New Orleans is one of the few areas in the country were the
> Formosan
> Termites has gotten a strong hold and most of the trees blown down were
> already badly infested with those termites. Now we may have the worst case
> of transporting a problem to all parts of the country that we have ever
> had.
> These termites can eat a house in no time at all and we have no good
> control against them, so tell your friends that own homes to avoid cheap
> mulch and know were it came from.
>
>
> I checked this out on the Louisiana agricultural dept. web site FYI.
>
>
> Shortcut to: http://www.agctr.lsu.edu/termites/
This email I got today may be of interest
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Here is the snopes article refuting that email.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/termites.asp
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http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/termites.asp
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Thanks for the link to snopes, never saw it before. I guess only going between the ford, welding and now this forum I lose a lot of intell. But I will state that a nest of rattle snakes can travel inside a bundle of 12" pipe from Texas to NY. Quite a surprise for me when I cut the bundle on the job site
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good read
Well it certainly is a good read but you never know. I guess anything is possible. Good to be on the lookout for anything that is coming from down that way. .....including cars