Re: Study: Warming Making Hurricanes Stronger


"Barbara Lake" <bglake@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Now Kansas? As I said, my grandparents came from Kansas. Some of their
> siblings came with them. Some remained. My great aunt Nellie (I swear I
> did not make the name up) would go back to Syracuse, KS from time to time
to
> visit my gg grandmother, simply called by one and all Grandma Orr. Each
> visit confirmed Nellie's dislike for western Kansas. "It's so flat," she
> said, "even the malted milk at the ice cream parlor tastes flat."
>
> Barbara
>
>
As a native-born Kansan I think I should be allowed to make this comment
about my home state:

A speaker, one who profoundly disliked Kansas but was required to go to
Wichita occasionally on company business, told me: "The wind blows so
steadily there that one day during a lull [in the wind] 40 houses fell
over."

Ken Bland


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