What are we going to do about the weather in Free New England? Let it blindly control us as Washington has done since the aborted Hartford Convention? Will we stand by as the cold murders those with no heat? As the wind hurls itself against our homes, biting at the flesh of our hard-working New England brethren? No!
Yet what can we do?
Yet what can we do?
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Re: free new england
Thu, November 27, 2003 - 6:27 PMDearest P.HK.M.,
New England is an entity that has a mind of its own. Meteorologists have attempted to predict the ripping snow storms, the balmy summers, the swelling, flooding spring rains. Sometimes they are correct, but that is all chance. Merely chance.
Yet one of the charms of New England is its inconsistent weather patterns.
80 F degrees in November, anyone?
5 months in a row of 20 F or below temperatures?
Though I call this a "charm", it could certainly be called otherwise.
But take a look around you. Our fellow New Englanders are strong, ready to take on anything that blows or snows our way.
Life may be easy in California, but life is at least interesting in New England. No where else can you live and change your ways with the seasons.
Plant your seeds, water your plants in the spring.
Play outside, weed, tend your garden in the summer.
Harvest, can, preserve, freeze your food in the autumn.
Eat, relax, enjoy each other in the winter.
New England weather forces us to connect with the elements. Even in city conditions, New England does not let us forget of powers other than us.
Nature.
etc.
However, P.H.K.M., the points you raise are valid.
What are your suggestions at this point, what can we control, what can we change?
Renewable energy and biodiesel needs to be added to the a-priori list of Essential New England Actions.
P.H.K.M., we will work on this. Please write again.
Delegates White, Metz, Truskoski...please share your ideas.
In solidarity,
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Re: free new england
Tue, December 2, 2003 - 6:05 AMFor many in New England, it is a common saying:
'What can you do, that's New England Weather.'
Or other variants. New england weather is not some kind of junxtaposition, not some kind of experimental poetic image; no, it is itself. How do we release this unconscious culture-in-weather within the New England reality? IS the constatn shift and flux of New England weather a pattern of our tactics?
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Re: free new england
Wed, December 10, 2003 - 7:37 AM"Wither the wheather, anon and fro
If there were but a wall to block the snow."
Anonymus New England poet, c. 1800
Much of our harsh weather blows in from the North, from our "non-threatening" neighbors, the Canadians. A barricade along our Northern border may be the answer to our problems. Let's reconsider who our friends are.
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Re: free new england
Wed, December 10, 2003 - 4:58 PMI disagree. While our cold Winter temperatures often originate in the High Pressure Zones wafting East off the Canadian Plain, much of the moisture resulting in New England Winter Precipitation originates in the south, Low Pressure Zones riding north and anchoring off the coast. Furthermore, a barricade would prevent a Free New England from establishing concrete trading privelages in the province of Quebec (a province, mind you, with a struggle much like our own), not stop the "harsh weather" from blowing in. How high would the barricade be? One mile? Two? How would it be built?
Theophratus -
The weather cannot be stopped or blocked - in its transience it can only be influenced. I invite you to visit the OWL STORM tribe.
The Quebecois need be our allies and lifeline to the St. Lawrence. Do not fall prey to senseless prejudice.
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Re: free new england
Wed, December 10, 2003 - 8:33 PMI failed to consider the Low Pressure Zones, a gross oversight. What do you know about geodesic domes? A project of monumental scale might be a great unifier for our people (who exactly they are yet, I do not know). I am young and could dedicate 10 years of labor to the cause.
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Re: free new england
Fri, December 12, 2003 - 1:15 PMi think the idea of building a giant geodesic dome is a great move forward. i would be quite happy to match your 10 years labor to work on this project, assuming i can have a small quadrant on an exterior portion.
surely you've heard of the eden project?
www.edenproject.com/
bliss :)
here's some info:
www.pressenter.com/~marshah...desic.htm
home sweet dome
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