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   From: hatuunen@cox.net   
      
   On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:29:44 -0700, "Mimi"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"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.   
      
   You apparently would have trouble believing that someone could   
   drown in 20 feet of water while wading across a lake with an   
   average depth of 18-incehs.   
      
   >>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.   
      
   You were lucky. But Mt St Helen is not your only concern.   
      
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