[Coco] Stay warm

[Bob Devries]

On the other side of the world to you, over the last few weeks we have been 
having temperatures of around 45C (~115F). Thankfully, it has cooled down to 
the high 20's.

Our winter temperatures rarely go below -10C.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Stay warm


>> It has been "fun" here just 20 minutes NE of Chattanooga, TN.  At 07:15
>> when
>> the temperature hit 0.0F the lights went out for 45 minutes taking me off
>> line.  I've not seen such cold since leaving MA in 2004.
>>
>
> Just to keep this all in reality....
>
> Winter of 1969/1970 I was stationed at Ft. Benning, GA (which is even
> further south than Atlanta).  We had an ice/snow storm that shut the
> post down for three days.  We Yanks offered to show them how we dealt
> with it up North (I was in an Combat Engineer battalion and we had lots
> of equipment) but we were told to just stay in the barracks cause in two
> days it would all be gone.
>
> Contrary to what the popular press is having a field day saying,
> this isn't totally unheard of in the deep south.  This time will
> be the same as all the other times.
>
> I have a friend by Ft. Gordon (Augusta, GA) and she says they are
> expecting 70's this weekend.
>
> bill
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