Weather
Dam that’s cool!
The Weather Channel web site has an interesting article on “The World’s 20 Most Amazing Dams“. While reading their page about Hoover Dam, I came across this gem: When its construction was authorized by Congress in 1928, the population of nearby Las Vegas – then a sleepy town of some 5,000 people – reportedly swelled by 10,000…
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I just checked the temperature and there’s this little mark in front of the number. It’s like a dash or — oh my! — it’s a minus sign. There is a minus sign on our temperature. So it’s -2 in our little part of Denver. I think that’s as cold as I have experienced in…
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I grew up in Buffalo, NY so I used to know what cold is. I used to know what winter is. I moved away when I was 19 years old and spent my adult life in Florida and Nevada. I have learned what heat and humidity (and a dry heat) are instead and have forgotten…
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