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   From: johndoe@nowhere.com   
      
   "Hatunen"  wrote in message   
   news:7h6l32ptkd7mj8o6apbfb9d7gd9ss5jfbj@4ax.com...   
   > On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:03:27 -0700, "Mimi"    
   > wrote:   
   >>   
   >>Bitterly cold? Well, maybe relative to Tucson, but not to other parts of   
   >>the   
   >>US.   
   >   
   > You know, I used to be a landed immigrant in Montreal, and I've   
   > lived in upstate New York and in Kansas for typical plains   
   > blizzards so I have a pretty good idea what I'm talking about. it   
   > can get bitterly cold in the Tri-Cities area. One week we had   
   > very cold and about two feet of snow (but then one morning about   
   > three am a chinook hit; remarkable if you've not experiencee   
   > one).   
   >   
   I just looked up the average January low in Richland; it's 24. In Montreal   
   it's 7. Maybe you just hit a bad spell.   
      
   >snip>   
      
   > Don't forget the inevitablility of a repeat of the year 1700   
   > major subduction zone earthquake in the Pacific Northwest and its   
   > subsequent tsunami (very similr to the Indian ocean event last   
   > year). And the possibility of lahars from Mt Rainier. And falling   
   > ash; Mt St Helens ruined my VW's engine, and we were on the edge   
   > of the ash fallout.   
      
   Don't worry, I haven't forgotten. As for the ashfall from Mt. St. Helens,   
   never got to Seattle.   
      
   Marianne   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)