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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Well, our cold has gradually disappeared and this year we have only had snow 
twice and it didn't stick more than a few days.  We have gotten the cold but 
we don't normally get single digit temps or less for days on end.  The trees 
up here aren't used to it and the madrones are dying, the Ponderosa pines 
are snapping.  Nor do they normally get 70s over in the valley.

The weather is screwed up.  Playing party politics and sticking one's 
fingers in one's ears and chanting lalala won't change that.  If it would, 
I'd try it.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>


> It's winter, and we have cold weather. Make sport of Mr Gore as much
> as you want, but even 20 years ago when we had winter it got cold and
> stayed that way most of the winter. Ice storms were rare. Now our
> temps fluctuate between subzero and the 50s. Atleast we are still
> getting enough cold weather to kill most  pasture worms and othrer
> pests. And the local utility has a deal on propane-fueled generators
> rto alleviate the week-long power outages that are now business as
> usual.