"Ema Nymton" > wrote in message
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> On 8/2/2014 5:45 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>> On 8/2/2014 6:56 AM, Janet Wilder wrote:
>>> On 8/2/2014 9:37 AM, Janet wrote:
>>>> In article >, says...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps if you lived
>>>>> in an area with little sun, you'd feel the same. No sun does make
>>>>> you droopy. And mostly we have no sun.
>>>>
>>>> What crap. Seattle's at Latitude 46 N, further south than Russia,
>>>> Scandinavia and the entire UK .
>>>>
>>>> Janet UK
>>>>
>>>
>>> They do get an inordinate amount of rain up there. I spent two weeks in
>>> a town outside Seattle and saw the sun for about a total of 9 minutes. I
>>> could never live there. Very depressing.
>>>
>>
>> Scandinavian folks are into being depressed. That's why so many of them
>> choose that area to move to. My co-worker said that when the sun came up
>> at the University of Washington, classes would be canceled. My wife used
>> to work at Swedish Hospital in Seattle. She said there was underground
>> tunnels so that people could move around between buildings while
>> avoiding the elements. Now that's damn cool.
>
> Have been to Seattle a couple of times and I did not know they had
> underground tunnels. I believe Houston's underground tunnels are popular
> for the same reason, to avoid the elements.
>
> http://www.downtownhouston.org/site_..._Below_Map.pdf
>
I don't think we have a lot of them but we do have a few.