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To: keokalani'nui who wrote (1252)	1/18/2007 3:40:46 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1336

I'm not expecting any perks like that--in fact, I think my boss would be glad to be rid of me. You might get a high speed line as part of some telecommuter deal. But you wont see that in the National Weather Service--most of what we look at isn't online, UNIX workstations and proprietary display software. That said, it wouldn't be any big trick to set up a forecast office--using only the stuff that is available online (most provided free of charge from the NWS). Of course, forecasting Seattle weather isn't a very useful or valuable enterprise. Years ago the NWS ended the agricultural forecasts-- so as not to compete with private forecasting outfits, there is a little money in that.