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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Over The Hedge: Boys Gone Wild
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:45:46 -0500
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On 8/26/2024 11:22 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 14:06:33 -0500, Lynn McGuire
> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Over The Hedge: Boys Gone Wild
>>     https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2024/08/25
>>
>> It is 101 F in my backyard but it ain't that hot.
>>
>> Thank goodness for Mr. Carrier and Mr. Friedrich.
> 
> It's actually been rather cool, rather cloudy, and rather wet here in
> Seattle the last week or so (starting with a thunderstorm featuring
> 60mph winds and pea-sized hail, IIRC). In fact, one day tied with the
> 1960 record for lowest high temp on that date! Not matched for 64
> years! And still not broken!
> 
> I don't remember August 1960 as such (too much fun outside to care
> what month it was). But it /is/ a reminder that it really /can/ rain
> at any time in Seattle!
> 
> I'm even considering turning the furnace back on and converting back
> to long-sleeve shirts. But there is always a chance that it will warm
> right back up in early September.

In August of 1960 my parents and I were driving from Freeport, Texas to 
Princeton, New Jersey in our 1948 Dodge with the bad valves.  My father 
was starting his three year journey to get his PhD in Chemical 
Engineering, courtesy of NIST after he was the valedictorian of TAMU 
Engineering College.  Princeton is a cold place, incredibly cold, -20 F 
nights in the dead of winter.  My father used to bring the six volt 
battery in from the Dodge at nights so it would work in the morning.

Lynn