Posted by IsoM on January 7, 2002, at 1:43:56
In reply to Re: Canadian weather » IsoM, posted by Mitch on January 5, 2002, at 14:31:24
Ah, Mitch - don't listen to Cam. He's been frost-bitten too many times. A good pharmacist he is but he'd make a crappy meteorologist. Besides, he said I was a wimp. (How do I make a little smilie with a lower lip hanging down??)
Sure Kansas' weather sounds like the Can. Prairies, they're both prairie regions, but I think Kansas does get hotter in summer & while lots of tornado warnings are given out in hot, humid weather, the place I lived in was just at the very edge of Tornado Alley & I never experienced one.As for logging in Prince Albert, yes! The first sawmill was opened in 1877 & at one time "logging crews of over 2000 men were employed during the winter in the Prince Albert area to cut & pile logs in one location. As many as 400,000 logs would be piled waiting for the spring thaw."
Your Dad wasn't pulling your leg. The Northern forest has much smaller trees though than you find on the West coast.
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> Wow, I am from Kansas and it was a lot like that living there. Also, wind that just never..stops. I remember reading a book when I was in elementary school-"The Endless Steppe"-about the Ukrainian or central Asian steppes/grasslands. I was joking with someone about the heat out there in Kansas this summer when I visited family-"I might as well have been in Kazakhstan!". I haven't been on the Pacific side of the continent yet. I may have to fly to Long Beach in March. Eeek, not looking forward to being in a plane.
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