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Imagine there's a place in our world where the known things go.

Calculations, weather maps, old borrometer readings,

strange weather lately, right?

Tragic weather, catastrophic weather, snow, McGueddon, heat apocalypse.

It always makes me think of something attributed to Mark Twain.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Hmm, better check the forecast.

Tonight, a dangerous winter storm is bearing down on the East Coast with blizzard warning

issued for the New York City area and Boston.

Oh geez, I hope people would be okay. Might as well catch up on my reading.

I've been going through old issues of poor Richard's Almanac.

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