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Re: more Canadian weather » IsoM

Posted by Mitch on January 7, 2002, at 11:32:07

In reply to Re: more Canadian weather » Mitch, posted by IsoM on January 7, 2002, at 1:43:56

> Ah, Mitch - don't listen to Cam. He's been frost-bitten too many times. A good pharmacist he is but he'd make a crappy meteorologist. Besides, he said I was a wimp. (How do I make a little smilie with a lower lip hanging down??)
> Sure Kansas' weather sounds like the Can. Prairies, they're both prairie regions, but I think Kansas does get hotter in summer & while lots of tornado warnings are given out in hot, humid weather, the place I lived in was just at the very edge of Tornado Alley & I never experienced one.
>
> As for logging in Prince Albert, yes! The first sawmill was opened in 1877 & at one time "logging crews of over 2000 men were employed during the winter in the Prince Albert area to cut & pile logs in one location. As many as 400,000 logs would be piled waiting for the spring thaw."
>
> Your Dad wasn't pulling your leg. The Northern forest has much smaller trees though than you find on the West coast.


Thanks for that info! He was a carpenter and mainly worked framing windows and doors. He then got a job with this lumber distributing company (which had steadier work and benefits) and started assembling prefab/prehung windows and doors. They evidently had openings for a lumber mill in Saskatchewan. The company was called Simpson Lumber-no telling what they are now.

Oh, about tornadoes. I have just seen two and they were hanging out of clouds not on the ground. However, when I lived in Wichita there were about two tornado warnings every week during the middle of tornado season (March-July). When the big Oklahoma City tornado hit, the suburb of Wichita that I lived in (Haysville) got hit too. It wiped out about half of the town. Our house was near the railroad tracks in the middle of town. It got wiped off the foundation-nothing left. There was three story church dating from around 1920 that got wiped clean a block away-all that was left was a little pile of bricks where the chimney was.

Mitch


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