Week after this coming looks like a cold trend is to be here.
So prepare Pete - going to be back to normal fast!

Martin
Martin Eastburn
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NRA LOH & Endowment Member
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder



Wayne Cook wrote:
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 02:06:02 GMT, "Pete C."
wrote:


zadoc wrote:

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:32:56 GMT, "Pete C."
wrote:

[snip, see original]


Don't you hate those annoying little distractions? I've got the
potential threat of grass fires to contend with here in the Dallas area.

Pete C.

The fires in Texas and Oklahoma are even making the TV news in Sydney.
As it is midwinter there, isn't this a bit unusual?

Are people there starting to wonder about climatic changes and global
warming?

One wonders what midsummer will be like.

Cheers,


Dunno, it's apparently a bit warmer than normal. I bailed out of the
frozen northeast to come down here and I'm loving the weather. It's 57
at the moment, was near 70 today, and I just talked to my mother in CT
where it's 33 and snowing heavily. This past summer had a few 104 degree
days, but the humidity was like 20% so as long as you were in the shade
it was just fine.



The areas that are having problems are used to more moisture than
they got last year. As for temperature well it's staying warmer than
it unusually does. Normally we will get cold spells followed by warm
spells. This year there's been very few cold spells (at least that's
how the old timers would put it).

Up here it's slightly drier than it really should be but not
extremely so. We're used to being rather dry up here. As for the fires
well we had a pretty bad one right next to my house Sun during all the
wind. In fact it did a good job of trying to burn the whole town down
and controlling it was a bear with 40-50 mph winds. But we are no
strangers to that type of fire up here thus all the fire departments
have a mutual assistance pact and there's even a joint command
structure worked out already. Thus they can fight fires like this as
effectively as possible. What really mess them up though was the front
coming through right in the middle of the fire. When it started the
wind was out of the west in a pretty steady 30-40mph. This spread the
fire down the river where it was difficult to fight. Then the wind
turned out of the north and at times got even higher. This caused the
start and end of the first burn to take off in a southern direction
(fortunately the middle of the fire had been controlled enough that it
didn't take off, real fortunate for me since my house would of been
right in line for it). They managed to stop the west end of the fire
right at I-40. If it had managed to jump that it would of ended up in
town. Another good fortune was the rain that came after the front came
through (though it took hour after the wind changed for it to come).
If it hadn't of came then they would of had a much harder time of
getting the rather spread out (by that time) fire under control.

Wayne Cook
Shamrock, TX
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/waynecook/index.htm

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