[AT] Good tractor day

[Cecil Bearden]

After living in the so called "Great" Plains of Oklahoma, I know why the 
Indians were so pissed off at the white man for moving them here.  If 
they lived in Tipis as history has taught us, they were nomadic because 
at least every week they had to go on a hunt for their Tipi..  With this 
wind, it would be in Nebraska territory in a day!!!  The old diaries of 
Western OK folks talk of the getting Prairie Fever from the Wind..  I 
can certainly believe it.   Try to stand up in a 35mph wind gusting to 
48.  That is what was recorded for about 6 hours here yesterday.  I have 
a friend living here from Eastern OK, born and raised there.  He did not 
know what wind really was.

Cecil in windy OKla

Indiana Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Bob McNitt <nysports at frontiernet.net> wrote:
>> Cecil -
>>
>> I'm no fan of the "global warming" or climate change" fanatics' claims, but
>> it would see "something" is going on with the weather of late. There seems
>> to be too many extremes, not just in North America, but all over the planet.
>> Let's hope it's just a temporary phenomenon and not a long-term trend. If it
>> turns out to be the latter, it will have a major impact on many things, not
>> the least of which will be agriculture.
>>
>> Bob in CNY
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Cecil Bearden" <crbearden at copper.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 5:59 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Good tractor day
>>
>>
>>> Here in Oklahoma we would take any type of moisture.  right now it is
>>> sunny with 35 degrees the North wind is at 23mph gusting to 38.  Wind
>>> chill is 23deg.  32% humidity.  I have lived here for 55 years and I
>>> have never seen wind like we have had in the last 3 years.   The last
>>> rain we had was about 1/2 inch last month.  Before that it  was in
>>> September..
>>>
>>> Cecil in OKla.
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> Scientist claim that the more stable weather that we have had for
> about the past 80 years was an abnormally smooth time and that more
> radical weather with wider swings is more "normal" in the long term...
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