Weather related supply changes are not just for oranges:
An unusually cold winter that decimated native shrimp has robbed the Carolinas of a spring delicacy.
Below-normal water temperatures killed virtually all the white shrimp that overwinter in South Carolina's estuaries, and N.C. officials also report dead crustaceans.
The cold heaped more trouble on Carolina shrimpers, whose numbers are also dwindling. Shrimpers are already being undercut by cheaper, farm-raised imports and, more recently, rising fuel costs.
I was able to find wild NC shrimp at the store a few weeks ago, but it is not there now (I'm trying to add shrimp and grits to the few meals I'm able to cook respectably). There is still hope for the summer harvest.
