Re: Georgia in winter

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:41:47 -0500, Thomas Barclay of the Clan Barclay
<kaladorn@home.com> wrote:

>See, the nice thing about life above the 49th Parallel (I
>think that's the right one... though that could be the northern one...)
>is that the summers are (except for 3-4 weeks at the hottest) quite
>bearable. Fall and Spring are awesome seasons. We don't get many
floods,
>we get few earth tremors (Canadian Shield and all) and we don't get too
>many Tornados, and pretty much zero in the realm of Typhoons, Tropical
>Storms, and Hurricanes.

I'm heading down to New Orleans in a couple of weeks for Mardi Gras.
They are
in the 70s right now. They couldn't believe that we had a 57 degree F
shift
the other week there... They also can't believe that people actually DO
adapt.
I was reading in our paper about a woman in the arctic. She was
complaining
that the temperature was about -20 F. You see, she does tours on her dog
sled
and at that temperature the dogs start to overheat. She was out in her
caribou
clothing, but only wearing a sweater and light jacket. 

Sure, it gets hot and humid in Southern Ontario in the summer (my friend
from
Calgary is always complaining about the humidity) but not as bad as
Louisiana/Southern Mississippi! Don't forget those sub zero temperatures
kill
bacteria too (real cold tends to crack bacterial cell walls) or makes
them
dormant. 

Mind you... I'll try to remember all this as I'm shoveling the walk... 

Allan Goodall		       agoodall@interlog.com
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