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To: Bon mots
We all remember the stories of George Washington’s brutal winter at Valley Forge - that’s in the balmy South!

The balmy part of Pennsylvania, perhaps. I guess if you were from Maine you would probably consider it in the South.

50 posted on 12/30/2007 2:05:22 PM PST by palmer
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To: palmer
The balmy part of Pennsylvania, perhaps. I guess if you were from Maine you would probably consider it in the South.

Yep.
Yankee all the way.

But still, when you think about the "Little Ice Age" - Long Island sound was frozen so thick that they were able to slide cannon across it from Long Island to Connecticut!

I never even saw an ice-cube in the Sound!

I cannot imagine a brutal winter in Valley Forge... but if Long Island Sound was frozen like that, it must have been brutally cold in Valley Forge too.

It just doesn't get that cold anymore.
Maybe when Al Gore fixes the climate, we can all freeze to death again like in the good old days.

52 posted on 12/30/2007 2:12:55 PM PST by Bon mots
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