
Steve M wrote:would it mean a low pressure here causes a high pressure somewhere else?
PhantomTweak wrote:http://chiloquin.com/
There's my town's website
Steve M wrote:would it mean a low pressure here causes a high pressure somewhere else?
I don't know, or even think so, Steve, But Norcal and Southern Oregon have had a high pressure zone sitting over us for the longest time now...![]()
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Night all!
Pat☺
The federal government may have shut its doors due to weather conditions — but the guards tasked to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier aren’t so quick to abandon their posts.
With what’s being billed as the storm of the season dumping inches of snow on the Washington, D.C., region, leaving a cloud of closures in its wake — Capitol Hill, area schools, airports, Metro bus service and almost all government offices in Maryland, the capital city and Virginia — the stalwart sentries for some of America’s most revered military sites stand tall and fast.
The Society of the Honor Guard's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier website sees its mission this way: “The guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (we call ourselves ‘Sentinels’) are completely dedicated to their duty of guarding the Tomb. Because of that dedication, the weather does not bother them. In fact, they consider it an honor to stand their watch (we call it ‘walking the mat’), regardless of the weather. It gets cold, it gets hot — but the Sentinels never budge. And they never allow any feeling of cold or heat to be seen by anyone.”
Sergeant of the Guard, Sgt. 1st Class Tanner Welch, said to Washington Times‘ Alex Swoyer that the guarding of the Tomb of the Unknowns started in 1926 — and that it’s been a 24-hour, round-the-clock mission since 1937 ...
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