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7. Word of caution about those accordion downspout extenders

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 05:04 PM

Jun 2016

Mosquitoes can breed in them, particularly those nasty Asian tiger mosquitoes that can breed in a half teaspoonful of water. We got rid of ours.

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