1 "tangerine tree is flakey in the best of times" Like a certain weblogger? I couldn't resist. It was a gigantic softball floating toward me, and I was Mark McGuire right after an injection.

2 The lady who runs the cafeteria at the school at which I work purchased ten times the usual amount of OJ this week because she suspects that prices are about to go up.

3 Gee, Sean--if I meet anyone to whom that description applies, I'll be sure to pass that along! Yeah, John. I keep telling myself that if I overbuy on citrus, I'm part of the problem, because I'm creating an artificial shortage--a "run" on fruit in the stores. But I'm mired, oddly enough, in human nature. BTW, I'm not sure the price increases will extend to juice; a lot of the citrus that isn't pretty enough to be sold as whole fruit gets used for juice--that's why FL oranges are used more for this purpose than CA ones. But some of the CA crop was rescued, and will be diverted for use in OJ. Of course, I have no idea how much sort-of-damaged fruit was salvaged in the storm front, so I can't be sure. If they grabbed enough oranges as the frost was hitting, the fruit could, theoretically, flood the juice market and hurt FL farmers by creating an imbalance.