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To: Neeka who wrote (187931)	12/6/2009 2:10:51 PM
From: Amelia Carhartt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

Thanks for the heads up Neeka. We are lucky where I live. This is the first wind chill warning I think I've seen in eight winters. But, we also used to have hardly any wind and that all changed this year. They call the Tobacco Valley the banana belt. Of course, that's Montana's rendition. Still we are warmer and have less snow than most places.

To: Neeka who wrote (187931)	12/6/2009 2:46:50 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

I've been reading "The Arctic Adventures of Peter Freuchen" on your recommendation and find it to be very entertaining. His writing is very lucid and humorous. One story after another. Many of them are third hand stories, but always Freuchen knew the persons involved. Any time we get to feeling sorry for ourselves, it would be good to reflect on how the Eskimos lived before we started to "improve" their lives for them with modern conveniences. They had a completely different culture, morals, and philosophy that was adapted to their way of life. Theirs was a hard lot. They had to entertain choices in life that we would not even consider, and if we did we would be jailed for it. I'm glad to be able to read about those adventures, but I'm glad I missed them myself. It's a captivating book. Thanks for the recommendation.

To: Neeka who wrote (187931)	12/6/2009 3:03:58 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

I am reading a book called "The Children's Blizzard" and thought you might be interested. It is full of information about the early Weather Department, how it operated, and how difficult it was to forecast weather. The author goes into great length to describe how weather reports were first reported and how much early Americans........especially farmers.......relied on those reports. Another good book on the topic of early weather prediction is "Issac's Storm," about the great Galveston hurricane of 1900.