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You all get the quakes and we get the snow - and wind. Merry, did you get the ferocious wind in beantown?It propelled my kayak all the way down the hill and tore the storm door off its hinges.
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Hi, Waytogowayfarer! We got somewhere around eight or nine inches in Beantown. No big deal except for the ferocious winds that blew up overnight. Snow wasn't enough to close the schools, for a change. The thermometer-measured temps were in the teens, but the windchill factor brought it to below 0. My sled-dogs are getting tired of this stuff.
Poor babies - my offer still stands - you are welcome to visit me here in SUMMER Texas. All the trees are blooming and flowers are out everywhere. Lilies of the Valley are smelling good. They all started last month - FEBRUARY !!!!!!!
It started snowing here about an hour ago. Supposed to keep snowing til Tuesday.
Well, ok.
danon5 wrote:Morn'n all,
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What are we going to name the new 51st state after the lava cools and construction begins?????
That could conceivably happen if there is serious volcanic activity offshore from Washington state.
grinnnnnn!!
Hey, danon...
Were you aware that a group of people who live in eastern WA state are trying to divide us into two separate states with the dividing line being down the Cascade Mountains? They don't like the fact that the western half of the state is as liberal as it is and they also don't like that the biggest metropolitan areas are in the western half, either.
My mom's family, for the most part, lives over there and I've learned from listening to them over the years to keep my liberal views to myself around them. My mom and the sisters she has who live over here are pretty liberal, but the others in their family aren't so much...
I don't know about 'liberal' or the 'other' stances - but, I do stand for 'Freedom of Think'...........(g)
For the most part, western WA is Democrat and eastern WA is Republican.
I have no problem with "Freedom of Think" as you put it, but in this state, it's different enough on each side of the mountains that a sizeable portion of the eastern population wants to split off into their own state...I doubt that it would ever happen, though.
It's more than just politics in WA, I think. The eastern half of the state is a lot more like Idaho than a part of the Pacific Northwest. The Tri-Cities area -- Kennewick, Pasco, Richland -- is practically in the middle of a desert. Not quite as arid a desert as, say, the Sonoran in Arizona, but a desert nonetheless. That's not ecological diversity, that's ecological antithesis. The Cascades are to blame. All the rain clouds stay west of the mountains; the east is bone dry.
Clicking in. Nice to see you,littlek. How's your Mom? Just as snowed in as I am, I'll bet.
Merry, send some of your sled dogs over here. It would be a better way of transportation than a car that isn't 4 wheel drive. I must have been out of my mind.
Danon - don't say that too loud. You might have a housefull of Easteners.
Stay warm, ebeth.
Morning early risers,
All clicked........
Yes, WA state is VERY diverse - the training by the military is usually done at the Yakima Firing Center area (desert) where there are things like petrified wood items and I still have an eleven thousand year old leaf that came from the clay of a dozer cut on range. Interesting area.
The airport at Pasco is - by the way - one of the oldest airports in America.
pwayfarer, the weathers been atrocious everywhere, including CA - but we are getting a reprieve from tornados, mudslides, snow, and rain. The snow pack in Tahoe and Big Bear has proven beneficial for water sheds though, and thats good news for farmers - but portions of So. CA lost homes and 14 people thier lives from mud slides. Thunder and lightening lives right outside my door during winter rain storms.
Hope you guys get some relief from freezing wheather soon. Navigating isn't easy through ten feet of snow. Stay warm everyone.
Matrix, the current political conservative trend isn't good for most people including other nations, animals not faring well either.
Rare European Cat In Danger Of Extinction
LISBON (AFP) - The Iberian lynx, a big cat found only in Spain and Portugal, remains "critically endangered" and is at risk of becoming the first large feline to become extinct since pre-historic times, a conservation group warned in a new study.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1540&e=10&u=/afp/portugalenvironmentlynx
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Stradee wrote:Matrix, the current political conservative trend isn't good for most people including other nations, animals not faring well either.
Couldn't agree with you more, Stradee.
Couldn't get into the link you put up, but the lynx is a beautiful cat. There was a pair of lynxes at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, but I have no idea if they're still there. It seems like they weren't there the last time we went, but they always paced a lot which bothered me (felt that they really needed to be out where they had room to run) and their ears fascinated me - the colors and the little hairs that stuck up from the edges of them. I'm really sorry to hear that another beautiful animal is being driven to extinction. It's such a shame...
danon...
I didn't know that about the Pasco airport...Interesting fact. I've been by the Yakima Firing Center more times than I can count, though. Since the freeway was improved there several years ago, you don't drive "through" it as much as you used to when going over to eastern WA anymore. Still drive by the area where the Stryker training is happening - an interesting thing to see until you realize that those guys/girls are going to be shipped off to a very dangerous part of the world when their training's done.
I agree with you that Washington state is VERY diverse, but I think that if you look at the voting results of the past few years, you will notice that the right half of the state is far more conservative than the left. They also vote mostly Republican on the east side whereas here on the west side, we vote mostly Democrat. It's an interesting division, to say the least.
The old Birds of a Feather trick - - - That's why we here all agree on clicking to save rainforest and other things in the world.
