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Our part of the country had gone for weeks with little or no rain.
The TV weatherman, on his computerized map, was pointing out a thunderstorm 50 miles away. He placed his cursor over the region and clicked to zoom in on the storm.
Watching, my son shook his head and said, "I sure wish he would click on that storm and drag it over here."
Pale moon doth rain, Red moon doth blow,
White moon doth neither rain nor snow.
- From the Latin proverb (Clarke, 1639)
A person standing under an oak tree is 16 more times liable to be hit by lightning than if he had taken refuge beneath a beech tree. The oak tree has vertical roots which provide a more direct route to ground water.
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