>> BTW, the water was wonderful for swimming today, May 16, in a lake in the Ottawa Valley. It is the earliest I can recall such nice weather/water. :-) -- cheers, Stephen stephen.bird_at_superaje.com >> ************************************************************************** * In the Twin Cities last Wednesday, the water temperature was 70 degrees F. -- more like mid-June than mid-May -- and today the high is predicted to be close to 90 degrees, which normally is uncommon till July. The lakes are already turning green, and our gooseberry bush already has berries the size of large peas. On Friday a sudden storm that included a class F1 tornado blew through the Twin Cities. In mid-afternoon the sky turned black as night, and the strong winds and heavy rain that followed looked like a tropical storm. All the cars in the parking lot where I work were dented by hailstones the size of golf balls. Mine was partly protected by our two fiberglass Romany kayaks. As near as I can tell, the Romanys came through without a scratch! Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon May 18 1998 - 07:24:13 PDT
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