The insulating power of ice can sometimes keep frigid weather from killing off delicate early spring buds.
Farmers can only try the tactic, and wait.
Meanwhile, in Albany, Georgia , floodwaters receded a bit but still surrounded an estimated 5,000 homes and businesses up to seven feet deep in places. About 11,000 people have been displaced by waters from the Flint River that spilled over its banks earlier in the week after severe thunderstorms. Across the state line in Elba, Alabama , which was inundated with water after a levee failed on Beaver Dam Creek, officials are considering relocating the entire community of 4,500 to higher ground after enduring three major floods in the last eight years. We've been here before. We've got to have a comprehensive plan.