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Photos: Florida Freeze Jan 2014

An overnight sprinkler left icicles on the shrubs at The Antique Market of San Jose, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Will Dickey)
An overnight sprinkler left icicles on the shrubs at The Antique Market of San Jose, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Will Dickey)

Overnight sprinkler are usually used during freezing nights in Florida to protect the plants, fruits and trees from the extreme weather.

And a part of the results is stunning icicles like shinning, beautiful decorations hanging from the plants and trees.

Aren’t they beautiful? 

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Beautiful Photos Before Midwest Spring Storm

Ice coats a tree on Tuesday, April 9, 2013, in Sioux Falls, S.D, where a spring storm wreaked havoc on roads, downed branches and knocked out power for thousands of residents. The National Weather Service predicted that a half-inch of ice would accumulate by day’s end. (AP Photo/Amber Hunt)

A spring storm that began on April 10, 2013 and was expected to last through the week wreaked havoc on roads, downed branches and knocked out power for thousands of residents in the Midwest.

But before the storm arrives, beautiful icicles formed on the trees, fences and others.

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Photos: Southern California’s Freezing Temperature Could Damage Fruits

An orange orchard in the Southern California.
An orange orchard in the Southern California.

The freezing temperature in Southern California can damage the fruits grown in the orchards such as oranges, avocados and strawberries.

Farmers use wind machine and spraying water to save the ripening fruits from frozen.

The icicles caused by the frozen water are very beautiful. (Please click here for photos of beautiful icicles on ripening strawberries and oranges during a cold snap in Florida in early January 2010.)

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Icicles develop along a brick wall and on bushes as water from the sprinkler system freezes at a home on the corner of Willow Street and Peach Avenue in Hesperia, Calif, on Monday, Jan. 14, 2012. The extreme chill in the West comes as the eastern U.S., from Atlanta to New York City, is seeing spring-like weather. Photo: The Victor Valley Daily Press, David Pardo Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/news/science/article/Bitter-cold-grips-West-citrus-and-lettuce-damaged-4191498.php#ixzz2Iwkw5eR0
Icicles are formed on an orange tree in an orange grove in Redlands, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. (AP / Jae C. Hong) Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/cold-snap-in-california-arizona-likely-to-drive-up-canadian-produce-prices-1.1124323#ixzz2Iy8GSlUV
Citrus growers across California worked frantically through the night to keep their fruit from freezing as temperatures in their orchards dropped. (Jan. 14)
This Jan. 12, 2013, photo shows frost on a tree with oranges in an orchard near Sanger, Calif., after a night of freezing temperatures. As an unusual cold spell gripped parts of the West for a fifth day, some California citrus growers reported damage to crops and an agriculture official said national prices on lettuce have started to rise because of lost produce in Arizona. LOCAL PRINT OUT (VISALIA TIMES-DELTA, REEDY EXPONENT, KINGBURG RECORDER, SELMA ENTERPRISE, HANFORD SENTINEL, PORTERVILLE RECORDER, MADERA TRIBUNE, THE BUSINESS JOURANL FRENSO); LOCAL TV OUT (KSEE24, KFSN30, KGE47, KMPH26) Photo: The Fresno Bee, Craig Kohlruss Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/news/science/article/Bitter-cold-grips-West-citrus-and-lettuce-damaged-4191498.php#ixzz2IwkeFhiZ
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