Jim wrote and then Patrick wrote:


>James L. Trudeau wrote:
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>>        ((((((  place graphic of Indian rain dance here  )))))
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>> Jim (dusty) Trudeau
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>Must be a member of the Des Moines or Sioux tribe doing the rain dance,
>we're getting more than our share of rain up here in good ol' Ioway.
>
>Well, here's some extra! Just print a couple dozen copies of this, paste
>it on your windows and get out your umbrella!
>

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This is a true story:
On March 21st 1968 a local Rock&Roll radio station morning DJ decided that
'the kids' deserved a 'snow day'(a day off school because of too much snow)
even though the weather had been very 'spring-like' for weeks with temps in
the 60s and 70s. He told everyone who was listening that in the Peanuts
cartoon whenever it snowed the Peanuts characters would go outside and try
to catch snowflakes on their tongues. So, he rationalized, if everyone would
walk around outside looking up toward the sky with their tongues stuck out
maybe 'mother nature' would get confused and send a snowstorm. This was at
about 8:30 in the morning... he kept this 'thread' going and by 11:00am it
began to snow (this was NOT predicted by the weather guys) and by 3:00pm we
had received about 8" of snow. It snowed most of the night and 'things' were
pretty much at a standstill until late the next day.
So, whats the point...
Well, maybe if Jim (rainman) Trudeau and all the rest of the folks in Texas
were to get out their umbrellas and do like 'Winnie-the-Pooh' did in 'The
Blustery Day' you would get some rain. Everyone in Texas should go outside
with their umbrella open, look up at the sky and say "tut tut, it looks like
rain". Maybe this 'fooling mother nature' thing will work for you.

If however, by Saturday you are standing knee deep in water... I don't want
to hear about it.

Steve (gone sailing in the Carolinas until the 29th) Weisbrod
Beechglen Development Inc.
Cincinnati, Ohio