A run-in with mother nature.As secretary to Superintendent Vincent J. Vecchiarella in the Buffalo, N.Y., suburb of North Tonawanda North Tonawanda (tŏnəwŏn`də), industrial and commercial city (1990 pop. 34,989), Niagara co., W N.Y., on the Niagara River at the terminus of the the Erie Canal; settled c.1802, inc. as a city 1897. , Mary Ann Wlodarczyk fields plenty of telephone abuse when the locals disagree with Verb 1. disagree with - not be very easily digestible; "Spicy food disagrees with some people" hurt - give trouble or pain to; "This exercise will hurt your back" her boss's school-closing decisions due to snow. But Wlodarczyk averted a true weather disaster recently on her own property. After an especially heavy early snowfall, she sent her husband outside with a broom broom, common name for plants of two closely related and similar Old World genera, Cytisus and Genista, of the family Leguminosae (pulse family). to gently clear off the wet accumulation on their beloved six-foot rose of Sharon rose of Sharon, common name for several plants, especially Hibiscus syriacus, of the family Malvaceae (mallow family), and for St.-John's-wort, i.e., any species of the genus Hypericum of the family Hypericaceae (St.-John's-wort family). tree. "He came back inside and said he was glad he did it because the tree would have snapped in half if he hadn't," Wlodarczyk told The Buffalo News. A few minutes later, the couple heard a loud cracking noise. A huge branch from a neighbor's 30-foot maple had crashed onto the rose of Sharon, splitting it in half. Timing is everything, Wlodarczyk concluded. |
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