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Once they’ve outgrown ~보다 더 커지다 their toddler’s seat, they’re still not ready for adult safety belts alone. 4 foot 9 is the magic number. Until then, kids need a booster seat <의자 위에 올려 놓는 어린이용> 보조 의자. Make sure your little pumpkin gets there safely. Visit boosterseat.gov.

 

캘리포니아 오렌지사업, 혹한으로 피해속출

The most chilling weather yet this season is wreaking 가하다 havoc <대규모의> 파괴 from Texas to Maine. The bitter cold ice storm is responsible for more than 40 deaths and power blackouts 정전 for half a million customers. And that same frigid 몹시 추운 air is taking a heavy toll ~에 많은 손해를 끼치다 on California’s citrus 감귤류의 crops. A toll <사고, 재해 등의> 희생, 대가 that will soon translate to higher prices for consumers. Here’s ABC’s Brian Rooney.

 

Outside the town of Orange Cove, citrus grower Nick Hill is doing everything he can to save his crop. He spends nights in the groves <귤 등의> 과수원 running water to raise the ground temperature and operating enormous fans to stir 뒤섞다 the air. “Some people will go ahead and shut down, thinking that their crop has been destroyed, but I believe that you gotta keep running with this thing and then evaluate later. You can’t give up.” He cuts fruit looking for signs of a freeze.

 

California produces slightly more oranges and lemons than Florida. Most of it for the fresh fruit market. The loss in California could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. In the freeze of 1990, the California citrus crop was a total loss. Even the trees were destroyed. In 1998, the growers lost 80% of their crop. And prices went up 50%.

 

At the Los Angeles farmers’ market, the price of Californian navel oranges 오렌지의 한 품종 jumped from $.98 a pound to $1.49. “When the temperatures drop down into the mid or lower 20s, that’s when the damage occurs to the fruit.” And there’s a billion dollars worth of citrus still on the trees. Brian Rooney, ABC News, Los Angeles.

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