[Northkeep] Re: [Ansteorra] WEATHER AT GULF WAR XI..check again

[Susan]

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At 01:43 PM 3/8/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>>From: HNiewoehner at netscape.net (Hugh Niewoehner)
>>It's Gulf Wars == It's going to rain.
>>It's Lilies == It's going to rain Thursday at a minimum.
>>It's Pennsic == It's going to rain.
>>It's Estrella == It's going to be #@1% COLD! And it might rain.
>>                 (It is the desert in Feb after all.)
>>Figure if it's an SCA war, rain is going to happen sometime during the
>> >event.
>M/D replied
>I'm currently reading about the Battle of Towton, Palm Sunday 1461.
>Estimates of the people killed were 28,000-38,000 (one side said one, the
>other made the other claim).  Fought in a blizzard, with the bodies piling
>up and making it hard to walk, and the blood soaking into the snow, making
>for a quagmire that turned the nearby rivers red for three days.  The bodies
>so choked the flanking river that the fleeing army were able to run across
>on the bodies of the drowned.
>
>A little rain?  Pfff, you guys can do that.

Reminds me of the military quote for when they would hold large training
exercises in the muck and mire, if it ain't raining, it ain't training...


Susan