Subj : Re: We didn't get any eva
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Chaya
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 02:38:28

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

John Iwaniszek wrote:

> Finnigann wrote:
> 
>>   To: Chaya
>> -=> Chaya wrote to alt.tv.farscape <=-
>> 
>>  Ch> From Newsgroup:
>>  alt.tv.farscape 
>> 
>>  Ch> Nick wrote:
>> 
>>> Chaya wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Well, our area sent down buses loaded with stuff to Baton Rouge,
>>>> but no one wanted to come up here to Michigan (too far, they said).
>>>>  The volunteers who went down said a lot of people are still in
>>>> shock. 
>>>> 
>>>> One family followed the buses up in their own car.  They got a free
>>>> suite at a local hotel, clean clothes a local business gave the dad
>>>> a job.  I think the kids have started school, but they say they
>>>> aren't going to stay too long. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Well, it is a really long way.  Maybe they will end up staying.
>>> Maybe when they see the beginnings of a Michigan winter they will be
>>> back down here before the snow hits the ground. 
>> 
>>  Ch> Could be.  I'm sure we'll be sending more stuff back down there.
>>  There Ch> were a few hundred people flown in to Battle Creek a few
>>  days ago. 
>> 
>>  Ch> Michigan winters can be a drag, but we rarely have severe
>>  weather. Ch> Hurricanes never make it up this far--the jet stream
>>  pushes them into Ch> Ohio every time (I was actually hoping for some
>>  rain from Katrina), and Ch> we don't have earthquakes, mudslides, or
>>  tornados.  I'll take the Ch> winter...
>> 
>> Where do you live again? the UP? I have seen a few tornados in
>> Michigan. 
>>  latitude 41.9 N x longitude 85.0 W
>> 
> 
> 
> The mosquitoes in Howell will carry you off.  And a Howell melon
> sailing off the back of a float in the Howell Melon Day Parade could
> fell a bison.


True 'nough.  We've actually moved across town into the more "marshy"
area of Lansing.  Lots of 'squitoes and small frogs.

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