[Coco] [JunkMail] Fw: Midwest Snow fall.

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 19 December 2007, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
>From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>
>> On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Alex Evans wrote:
>> >On  16  Dec 2007, at 12:28 PM, George Ramsower wrote:
>> >> Snow? I've seen that on television. It's white, yes?
>> >>
>> >> George in San Antonio, TEXAS!
>> >
>> >I've seen snow *in* San Antonio, Texas.  Sure it was barely
>> >accumulated at all and was quickly gone, but it was snow.
>> >
>> >Greetings from Mililani, Hawaii.
>>
>> Heh, I can recall one NAB show week in April, oh 28 years ago I think.  We
>> drove into Vegas, got to our motel & found they had only heat pumps for
>> heat. Temps were in the 20's, and they were gonna have to figure out what
>> to do with about a foot of snow come morning.  It had the Vegas street
>> dept. plumb bumfuzzled & it took what little snow equipment they had about
>> 3 days to collect it well enough so the locals could drive again.  Me,
>> driving Cecil's old caddy, I had a ball cuz I learned to drive in that
>> stuff & lots worse the winter of 1950 in Iowa.  We almost froze though,
>> and you couldn't buy a blanket at any dept store in town.
>>
>> That taught me to never expect warm weather where I'm going regardless of
>> the locales reputation.  Pack accordingly.
>
>The first time I ever passed through Las Vegas (heading from Travis AFB up
> near the Bay Area to spend New Years in Clovis NM), shortly before the end
> of 1974, there was at least 8" of snow on the ground.

Yeah, Ward, but one expects a little dry snow in late dec/early jan.  Not in 
the middle of April..

>Of course, when I moved to that desert town in August 1979, it was raining
> and continued to do so for the better part of a week.  Some of the long
> term residents of Las Vegas (well, then, since I suspect few of them are
> still breathing) complained that the weather had gone to Hell ever since
> that lake was installed.  Some of them had moved there back in the
> 1920s-30s for the dry air before there was any other effective treatment
> for various lung conditions, such as tuberculosis.

Humm, I wouldn't have thought Powell could raise the local humidity THAT much.  
Particularly since its been pulled down & almost dry over the last 5 years.

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