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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:37:00 CST
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- From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Cloudy skies over Portland
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- > > Pleasant. I don't think it's ever really humid in NC. And if we're in the
- > > mountainy areas, it will be cool. (Not cold like RI, but cool.)
- > I disagree, Natalie. To me at least it is very humid -- and even ggs admitted
- > it was hot. If for no other reason of the weather, I vote we not got to NC.
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- It's a matter of perspective. People here find North Alabama cool in the
- summer. And when I moved to Knoxville in August 1974, I found it amazingly
- cool. I remember coming back here and laughing about how people in Kville
- thought it was "hot" if it got above 90. Although I *adored* last year's
- clambake, think about how absolutely perfect it would have been if it had
- been warm enough to swim.
- --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
- Pisces -- always happiest in water...
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