Replying to a message of TIM RICHARDSON to ALL:

 TR> Hey.....how's that `global warming' coming along for you?
 TR> Had to refurbish your air conditioners yet?

 TR> Here's a few `global warming' headlines from around the
 TR> nation:

 TR> `Temps plunge to records as cold snap freezes North, East
 TR> states.'

 TR> Vermont set `all-time record for one snowstorm'.

 TR> Iowa temps `a solid 30 degrees below normal'.

No kidding.  Sunday night tied the record for the lowest temp for that 
date - minus 15F (fortunately no wind to lower the chill factor).  Monday's
high was plus four and the temperature outside right now is minus 10F.
It's supposed to warm up to a daily high of plus 20F by Monday next week.

Fortunately I got most of the windows replaced and the siding tightened, my
fuel usage is running between 1/2 and 2/3 what it was last winter - and
the thermostat is set ten degrees higher this year.

There's a four foot drift of snow about 15 feet in front of my house, and 
another one in the dogs' kennel.  The dogs could and did walk across the top
of the kennel fence on top of the snow; I had to dig a four foot deep by four
foot wide by thirty feet long trench in the drift along the kennel side of the
fence.  More snow on tap this afternoon and tomorrow...

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