Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here... Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 08:47:53 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 17:47:58 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e061786d14e5cf53bdb151a302fb7546"; logging-data="4075228"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/2w/DENsTFIjZTQiLpI2mO+HMHfCvsLgs=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:FdzVK1QDXJQ39fc29u3+N0EBzOY= Bytes: 2399 On Fri, 08 Nov 2024 09:56:24 -0800, Robert Woodward wrote: >In article , > Paul S Person wrote: > >> On 7 Nov 2024 23:45:56 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote: >>=20 >> >Paul S Person wrote: >> >>Seattle doesn't want you. We are actually considering reviving the >> >>Lesser Seattle movement of the past. >> >> >> >>Remember, it always rains in Seattle. >> > >> >Might be a nice place for a Worldcon, though. >>=20 >> Unless we are under a Heat Dome and the power fails. >>=20 > >More a danger for a Westercon, but still possible. > >> Or we get another dose of Freezing Rain. One lasting more than one >> day. >>=20 > >Thankfully, the Worldcon won't be in December, January, or February. What part of "it always rains in Seattle" don't you understand? But I agree that that only instance of freezing rain that I experienced was on a 12/23. >> Small tornadoes are rare, but not unknown. Maybe once a decade or two. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"