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Originally Posted by lugerholsterrepair
The weather was very different too...I guess the world changes in a half century.
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That has been my impression for several years. Back in the 50's, it used to rain all day long. I can recall dressing in my hip boots and rain slicker and floppy fisherman's rain hat and playing out at the curb where the downpour drained into the brand-new storm sewers. (The city had just paved the street - it was cinders before). I was maybe 5. Little pieces of scrap wood in the stream. Now, it only rains for a few minutes at a time. And last Winter, I did not use my snow blower at all. The year before that, I used it three times, when the snow was over 6 inches. I can remember snow drifts as tall as I was in the early 60's. Blizzards in the 70's.
Alarmists are heralding global warming but climatologists are predicting that we are entering a mini-Ice Age.
Whatever happens, I'll miss it.
