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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Are you affected by Global warming?
  • Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:19:46 -0700


On Apr 21, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Lynda wrote:

Years ago you could count on being snowed in for 2 to 3 weeks at a time on
and off all winter. Again, unless you are up in the Alps section, you might
get snowed in for a day but that's it.

Lynda's post reminded me of a visit to Heartwood about fifteen years ago by a lady then in her forties. She said that as a child she had lived upholler for several years; her father had run a portable sawmill. In fact, the engine that powered that sawmill came out of an old car, the remainder of which still sits at the edge of the woods. Anyway, I commented that she had had a long walk to school, about three miles, up and down two pretty steep hillsides, and that would have been especially onerous during snow time. She replied, "It didn't snow then."

During the years between her residence and the current time I have seen hard winters where the snow stayed on the ground from about Thanksgiving until sometime in March. In recent years it is rare to have snow that stays on the ground for three days. I offer this as information that may support the premise that what we are calling global warming may in fact simply be part of yet another normal cycle.





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