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Seattle Boat Show Starts next Friday
On 1/23/13 12:49 AM, thumper wrote:
On 1/22/2013 5:18 AM, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... I've been in Seattle a couple of times over the years. I hit it just right as well... the weather was great, mostly sunny, nice, no rain to speak of. I must be livin right! :-) You should have stayed overnight, it would have changed to rain!! annual rainfall (NOAA) inches Miami, Fla. 58.53 Fort Myers, Fla. 54.19 Atlanta, Ga. 50.2 Boston, Mass. 42.53 Washington, DC 41.8 Seattle, Wash. 38.25 Portland, OR 37.07 Seattle has about half the days of clear, sunny weather as, say, Baltimore or Washington, D.C., and, of course, you can't really swim in the waters there. But Seattle is a nice place. I've never understood, though, why pleasure boating is so popular up there. Fishing I can understand, lots of interesting fish, but boating for the sake of boating, when you get frostbite if you get ocean splash on you?  |
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Seattle Boat Show Starts next Friday
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:46:42 -0500, ESAD wrote:
On 1/23/13 12:49 AM, thumper wrote: On 1/22/2013 5:18 AM, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... I've been in Seattle a couple of times over the years. I hit it just right as well... the weather was great, mostly sunny, nice, no rain to speak of. I must be livin right! :-) You should have stayed overnight, it would have changed to rain!! annual rainfall (NOAA) inches Miami, Fla. 58.53 Fort Myers, Fla. 54.19 Atlanta, Ga. 50.2 Boston, Mass. 42.53 Washington, DC 41.8 Seattle, Wash. 38.25 Portland, OR 37.07 Seattle has about half the days of clear, sunny weather as, say, Baltimore or Washington, D.C., and, of course, you can't really swim in the waters there. But Seattle is a nice place. I've never understood, though, why pleasure boating is so popular up there. Fishing I can understand, lots of interesting fish, but boating for the sake of boating, when you get frostbite if you get ocean splash on you? The shear beauty of the area. Salmonbait -- 'Name-calling'...the liberals' answer to a lost argument! |
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