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To: BWAC who wrote (39354)	8/27/2005 3:04:48 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

Well, that's odd because for about 30 years I have spent much of many summers at 3,000 feet in the Appalachians and find it much cooler than the piedmont and certainly than the coastal plain. I also grew up on the Cumberland plateau at 2,000 feet, and never realized what the rest of the South was going through in the summers. There are areas in West Virginia where the Plateau subdvision of the Appalachians rises above 4,000 feet. Indeed, the main drawback of year-round living there is the harsh winters. But that also makes it a good skiing area. I think you might wish to compare the highs and lows and averages for Beckley with Washington DC. Also, it is typically much more humid in Washington than up in the Appalachians. To me, temperatures in the seventies and low eighties in the day and fifties and sixties at night with low humidity is a much nicer climate than temperatures in the 80s or 90s in the day and the seventies at night with humidity closer to 90%. And Beckley's only at 2500 feet. Higher up would be cooler. wwwa.accuweather.com wwwa.accuweather.com This conversation never was about a place to start a business or raise a family. It had to do with a place that might be promising for resort properties and that had not been long developed, the way that the Poconos or the Adirondacks or Asheville were long ago.