In a message dated 2/24/01 7:03:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,
cfchrist@earthlink.net writes:
<< you will be in the dark with no heat >>
Chuck,
Stop being such a pessimist.
1. You can leave the refrigerator/freezer doors open while you are gone and
not have to worry about anything spoiling while you're gone....think upside:
your electric bill will be a few bucks lighter and you can put the savings
toward a way-cool power tool, although I would recommend the
battery-powered variety.....
2. Frozen rain CAN'T get any colder than 32*f (which sounds a whole lot
warmer
than 0*c doesn't it???).Don;t blame me, blame Beakman. Or maybe it was Bill
Nye.. One of them is from Florida, and said that the citrus growers PRAY
for rain whenever it gets below freezing...
3. There are some folks up in Mini-siberia-sota who will tell you that when
it's 2* above zero today, well, it's twice as warm as it was yesterday,
dontchaknow....
I drove my B to work in a semi-slushy rain on Friday, left the vent
window lock undone (the nut that tensions the spring isn't very tight....the
northwest wind shifted to the northeast and we got an unexpected snowfall...
the vent was blown wide open, and I was greeted by a pile of snow on the
crackly cold driver seat, thankyouverymuch.....
Saturday is a sunny 58* and the denizens of Frostback Falls, Minnesota
are happy to take their week long vacation strolls on our barren beach,
rolick in the frigid surf, slurp down boat drinks in abandoned bars and sleep
in bone chilling hotel rooms.
We locals, swaddled in a dozen layers of arctic expedition gear for a
short top down drive along Atlantic Ave, oogle these strange visitors from
the arctic tundra in hawaiian shirts and Birkenstocks with black socks, and
try our best to decipher their native tongue in which every sentence seems to
end with an "a"....
Mark Childers
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