On 7/11/2014 9:32 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> "dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On Friday, July 11, 2014 9:04:42 AM UTC-10, sf wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:41:38 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
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>> > You'll never know until you try is what I say. I'll probably work
>> better > where you're at than where I'm at. Ironically, if there's a
>> lot of > swamps in your area, my guess is that a swamp cooler won't
>> work that > great. :-)
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>> That part of the USA is in what's called a Temperate Rain Forest, but
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>> I don't know how much raining it has been doing lately or even how
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>> much fog they have. Our fog certainly isn't what it used to be.
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempera...rain_forest s
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> Thanks for the info. I'm not too hip about the RFC cast of players and
> where they live. I used to live in the Pacific Northwest - it never got
> warm enough to suit me. I used to live in the SF Bay area too. That was
> a little better. Driving in that fog was scary as shit. How do you guys
> do that?
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> OTOH, it's getting a little too hot over here and the AC in my car
> sprung a leak. Ha ha, that's the breaks.
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> sf is wrong about our weather.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothell,_Washington
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> Yes, we do have that giant chicken! But here's the specifics on the
> weather:
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> Bothell has a temperate oceanic climate, with cool summers and cool (but
> not cold) winters. Winter sees much more rainfall than summer and
> winters in Bothell (much like the rest of the PNW) are very cloudy and
> overcast. Summers are drier and cool to warm (no average monthly
> temperatures above 71.6 °F)
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> ***'
> See? Cool summers. This one is going to be one for the record books.
> They said in 2009 (I think) we had a string of 10 hot days. Highly
> unusual for us. And the year that we moved here, (2003?), we did have
> hot weather at the tail end of August. Our furniture hadn't arrived yet
> so we all slept on the floor under the ceiling fans as our fans hadn't
> arrived yet either.

The giant chicken is great. Every town ought to have a giant landmark.
My hometown has a large rock. As it goes, a big rock will never put a
smile on your face like a big chicken will.

The first night we stayed in Lynnwood, it was cold. It was so cold the
carpeting seemed to be frozen. My wife thought it was pretty funny. She
said the climate was temperate and for real cold, you go to where she
used to live - Montana. She was right but that really didn't really help
matters.