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Re: Weather forecast for DC Usenix meeting

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From: bandy
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1987 23:33
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>In article <789@pwcs.StPaul.GOV> dennisg@pwcs.StPaul.GOV (Dennis Grittner) writes:
>>[winter usenix should be somewhere where it doesn't snow, say Atlanta GA]
>
In article <202@msdc.b.msdc.UUCP> dan@msdc.UUCP (Dan Forsyth) writes:
>Don't neglect the fact [...] 
>and that Atlanta simply shuts down when
>anything icy falls from the sky.

So does D.C.  Do you think that they get much snow there either?

>How about we have the conference way up North somewhere that they can cope
>with everything up to and including a blizzard?  Then we can just dress up
>warmly and ignore the weather :-).

Um, almost.  Boston and Cambridge don't handle snow very well, that is
to say that they generally didn't start clearing it until just about the
next morning - by which time it has gotten even messier and there are just
enough non-snow conversant people driving around to mess everything up.

Now San Diego, on the other hand...
	andy
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Subject: Re: Weather forecast for DC Usenix meeting
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