I realize I havn't been updating my readers during the lllllllllloooooongggg progress of TwoRivers. I don't have an update on the story as such. So here's something else.
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This was just released. A secret text of intercepted short wave transcripts of how the U.S. Weather Service predicted the weather in Alaska last winter.
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Up in the north Yukon, a small settlement of Inuit fishermen had just acquired a short wave radio. It was August, and they were experimenting with it. They managed to get the U.S. Weather Service out of Anchorage. They heard that the forecasters were predicting a mild winter.
“Hah!” they said. “It is never mild up here. And the U.S. Weathermen are often wrong.”
So they went into the forest and began stockpiling wood for the winter. Winter comes early in the north Yukon.
A few weeks later, they listened to Anchorage Weathermen again. Now the forecasters were predicting “normally cold and stormy weather” for the winter.
The Inuit, being no fools, went back to the forest and gathered some extra wood.
In late September, it started to snow. And the forecasters out of Anchorage were now predicting a severe winter.
The Inuit, being no fools, went back to the forest and gathered some MORE extra wood.
As October came, so did the expected snow.
The forecasters now predicted one of the worst winters on history.
The Inuit gathered even MORE wood, for the winter.
One day they heard a caller on the short wave. He wanted to know how the U.S.Weather Service could predict such a severe weather.
“Oh,” said the man on the radio, “we watch the Inuit on satellite. They're never wrong. When they gather extra wood, it's gonna be a cold winter, for sure.”