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Re: [OM] Yesterday's Desert Hike

Subject: Re: [OM] Yesterday's Desert Hike
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 16:55:36 -0400
Unfortunately, the rule does not apply to members of the Armed Forces. You 
didn't have a choice. <g>

--Bob, who has not seen 52 below in 20 years in Maine. But then he hasn't spent 
any winters up in The County, either.

--Bob


On May 4, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Paul Laughlin wrote:

> The first winter that I spent at Loring AFB, there was 186 inches of 
> snow and the lowest temp was 52 below zero F.  That low temp was the 
> reading on one of those long thermometers hung on a post at the border 
> crossing.  When I asked the customs agent what the temp was, he walked 
> over and checked it, shivered and came back to say 52 below.  That was 
> around 3:00AM and I was returning from a dance in Canada.  When we went 
> out to the parking lot that morning, out of a couple of hundred cars, 5 
> of them started.  My 48 Chev was not one of them. LOL  So we walked to work.
> Paul in Portland OR
> 
> On 5/4/2012 5:04 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> You can't be a real Mainer unless your great grandparents x 12 were born 
>> here. But they say if you move to Maine, survive your first winter, and then 
>> stay for another one you can be a Mainiac. (This past winter doesn't count. 
>> As Maine winters go, it was a real wus.)

-- 
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