tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87136891331604807632024-03-14T04:14:07.731-06:00Along the GradyentBlogging about life, culture, the economy and politics, i.e., stuff, since December 2012Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.comBlogger941125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-67281720457541084122017-01-03T20:42:00.000-07:002017-01-03T20:42:35.508-07:00A Chase Un-Equalled<span style="font-size: large;">As happens to most us, our doorbell rings from time to time, and we open the door to a smiling face of a child, young man or young women, on the fundraising circuit. They are hawking candy, popcorn, magazines or coupons to local eateries in the name of a club, a cause, a scholarship or a school program.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So it has been these last four years when the young man across the street rings our doorbell each fall and spring. In the fall he sold coupon packages to help support the Bozeman High School cross country team. In the spring, the sales supported track and field team. Our neighbor is a runner. His name, appropriately enough, is Chase -- Chase Equall. In addition to the 3 mile and 5K cross country races, he runs 800, 1600 and 3200 meter races for the Bozeman High School track team. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Chase stopped by last fall I asked straight up, "What kind of times do you run?" He mentioned a 3 mile time with a 15-minute handle. "Wow, that's motoring!" I said. I started paying attention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">During the school year I am up early and into town taking one of my daughters to "0" period class at the high school, and/or headed to the Swim Center (attached to the high school) for my early morning laps. Last fall and winter I saw Chase most every morning running through town at 7:00 am whatever the conditions, rain, sleet or snow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 2015 Bozeman High School Hawks boys cross country team won its eighth straight state title. Chase competed as the <a href="http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/sports/prep/cross-country/bozeman-cross-country-title-streaks-continue/article_15aa09b1-95d1-5bdf-9e8d-c3132485af6f.html">number two runner on that team and finished fourth in state individually</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last spring Chase finished second in state at 1,600 meters.</span><br />
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<tr class="A T11046 A7114085 R78422106" data-result-id="78422106" id="A7114085" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">1.</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: silver; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">12</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 170px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top;"><a class="aN" href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=7114085" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Jake Perrin</a></td><td class="sb" style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"></td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">4:12.06a</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/School.aspx?SchoolID=11046" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Flathead</a></td></tr>
<tr class="A T11185 A5885945 R78422107" data-result-id="78422107" id="A5885945" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">2.</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: silver; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">11</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 170px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top;"><a class="aN" href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=5885945" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Chase Equall</a></td><td class="sb" style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"></td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">4:13.59a</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/School.aspx?SchoolID=11185" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Bozeman</a></td></tr>
<tr class="A T11064 A8773368 R78422108" data-result-id="78422108" id="A8773368" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">3.</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: silver; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">12</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 170px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top;"><a class="aN" href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=8773368" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Peter Kirgis</a></td><td class="sb" style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"></td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">4:15.99a</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/School.aspx?SchoolID=11064" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Hellgate</a></td></tr>
<tr class="A T11035 A4757108 R78422109" data-result-id="78422109" id="A4757108" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">4.</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: silver; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">12</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 170px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top;"><a class="aN" href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=4757108" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Aidan Reed</a></td><td class="sb" style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"></td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">4:20.12a</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/School.aspx?SchoolID=11035" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Helena</a></td></tr>
<tr class="A T11179 A6016695 R78422110" data-result-id="78422110" id="A6016695" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">5.</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: silver; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">11</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 170px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top;"><a class="aN" href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=6016695" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Dawson LaRance</a></td><td class="sb" style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"></td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">4:20.78a</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/School.aspx?SchoolID=11179" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Billings Senior</a></td></tr>
<tr class="A T11185 A5885939 R78422111" data-result-id="78422111" id="A5885939" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">6.</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: silver; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">11</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 170px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top;"><a class="aN" href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=5885939" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Riley Collins</a></td><td class="sb" style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"></td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">4:21.42a</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/School.aspx?SchoolID=11185" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Bozeman</a></td></tr>
<tr class="A T11035 A6091233 R78422113" data-result-id="78422113" id="A6091233" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">7.</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: silver; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">11</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 170px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top;"><a class="aN" href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=6091233" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Iain Anderson</a></td><td class="sb" style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"></td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">4:25.42a</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/School.aspx?SchoolID=11035" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Helena</a></td></tr>
<tr class="A T11046 A8682834 R78422119" data-result-id="78422119" id="A8682834" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">8.</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: silver; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">9</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 170px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top;"><a class="aN" href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=8682834" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Ben Perrin</a></td><td class="sb" style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"></td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">4:25.84a</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/School.aspx?SchoolID=11046" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Flathead</a></td></tr>
<tr class="A T11179 A6016702 R78422115" data-result-id="78422115" id="A6016702" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">9.</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: silver; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">11</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 170px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top;"><a class="aN" href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=6016702" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Peder Rickbeil</a></td><td class="sb" style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"></td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">4:28.34a</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/School.aspx?SchoolID=11179" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Billings Senior</a></td></tr>
<tr class="A T11237 A7468191 R78422118" data-result-id="78422118" id="A7468191" style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">10.</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: silver; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">10</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 170px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top;"><a class="aN" href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=7468191" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Cooper West</a></td><td class="sb" style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"></td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">4:29.81a</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/School.aspx?SchoolID=11237" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Charles M Russell(Great Falls)">Charles M Russell(Gr...</a></td></tr>
<tr class="A T11066 A6016609 R78422112" data-result-id="78422112" id="A6016609" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">11.</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: silver; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">11</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 170px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top;"><a class="aN" href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=6016609" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Marshall Beatty</a></td><td class="sb" style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"></td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">4:30.11a</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/School.aspx?SchoolID=11066" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Sentinel</a></td></tr>
<tr class="A T11185 A4699065 R78422120" data-result-id="78422120" id="A4699065" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">12.</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: silver; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">12</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 170px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top;"><a class="aN" href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=4699065" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Caleb Allen</a></td><td class="sb" style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"></td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">4:30.13a</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/School.aspx?SchoolID=11185" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Bozeman</a></td></tr>
<tr class="A T11237 A7965184 R78422121" data-result-id="78422121" id="A7965184" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">13.</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: silver; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">12</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 170px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top;"><a class="aN" href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=7965184" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Collin Buck</a></td><td class="sb" style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"></td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">4:31.94a</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/School.aspx?SchoolID=11237" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Charles M Russell(Great Falls)">Charles M Russell(Gr...</a></td></tr>
<tr class="A T11046 A4832934 R78422114" data-result-id="78422114" id="A4832934" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">14.</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: silver; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">12</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 170px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top;"><a class="aN" href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=4832934" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Jacob Calles</a></td><td class="sb" style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"></td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">4:33.43a</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/School.aspx?SchoolID=11046" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Flathead</a></td></tr>
<tr class="A T11239 A7981908 R78422117" data-result-id="78422117" id="A7981908" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">15.</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: silver; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">10</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 170px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top;"><a class="aN" href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=7981908" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Teagan Olson</a></td><td class="sb" style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"></td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">4:33.59a</td><td style="border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/School.aspx?SchoolID=11239" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkred; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Great Falls</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">During the spring season Chase began beating his teammate and long-time cross country rival Riley Collins. Chase <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1836831481"></span>showed steady and strong improvement<span id="goog_1836831482"></span></a>, besting his sophomore year record of 4:31 and freshman year record of 4:45. Chase's 4:13 1600 meter time at the state meet is the equivalent of a 4:15 mile, quite a feat for a high school junior.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Chase rang the door bell this September I said "Hey, don't underestimate yourself. Shoot for the moon!" He is doing exactly that. He has left teammate Riley Collins, and virtually every other runner in the Pacific Northwest, in his wake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This last September, Chase <a href="http://missoulian.com/sports/high-school/prep-cross-country-bozeman-senior-runners-win-mountain-west-classic/article_a577a068-bf90-58c8-98a3-fdd102c28f8a.html">beat the field in a 50 school race</a>, which included competitors from Washington, Idaho and Montana.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">"I always wondered what it would be like to win it," said the Bozeman senior, who was 11th last year. "It’s awesome, I’ve seen it so many times, so many iterations. To be on top my last time here, I couldn’t ask for more than that."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">"It went out more conservatively than I thought it would," said Equall, who won with a time of 14:58.95.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"It was just (Beatty) and a few guys, then a pack behind him, which actually I was very pleased with because I wanted to start out more moderately and then accelerate, which I did.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">"There was a pack of guys all gunning for Marshall and I decided to go with them at about a mile-and-a-half and I think it paid off pretty well."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">Amir Ado of Spokane Ferris finished second in 15:01.47, followed by Ben Perrin of Kalispell Flathead in 15:18.90. Beatty finished fourth at 15:21.65.</span><span style="font-size: large;">Equall was happy the runners were only required to traverse the hill once, as opposed to twice in last year's race.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">"I was very glad," he said. "It’s a variable that’s hard to contend with."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">Equall's win helped the Hawks to the team title with a score of 62. Lewis and Clark was second at 123 and Ferris was third at 177.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Montana Sports named <a href="http://www.montanasports.com/2016/10/19/bozeman-cross-country-runner-is-athlete-of-the-week/">Chase athlete of the week</a> in mid October.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bozeman – Cross Country runners take off as a group, and usually stay together for awhile, but by the time they get close to the finish, this year anyway, Bozeman senior, Chase Equall, has been all alone. However, he never considers himself lonely.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">“I think it’s almost never lonely,” says Equall. “Both because of the fact that you know that there is a guy right behind you who wants to eat you for lunch, and that your teammates are there supporting you and pushing you. I know that some people feel like it’s more of an individual sport, but it never feels like that. because there are four guys that are scoring and six other guys on your team that are there behind you pushing just as hard.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">Equall (his name is pronounced Eck-wul) has been sensational this year, with a 14:55 clocking in the three mile at the seven on seven meet in Helena, and one of the best times in history at the Sunfair in Yakima. But it all starts with his grueling workouts.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">“Chase is just a smart kid,” states his coach, Casey Jermyn. “He runs really smart. Kind of calm, cool, and collected. And he just puts in a lot of the hard work that you need to do and pays attention to a lot of the little details, morning runs, afternoon runs, kind of all the above.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">For Equall, who has been running since middle school, it’s an act of love. “I love racing with my teammates, racing against others, pushing ourselves and seeing what we can do.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">Chase also loves his studies. He has a perfect 4.0 grade point average and for all of that, we are awarding him a beautiful plaque from Bozeman trophy, as our Outstanding Athlete of the week.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">He just got home from a recruiting trip to the University of Washington, and he’s also being recruited by Montana, Southern Utah and Georgetown. “Chase will go to the next level,” promises his coach. “He will run in college, and will run well, will compete really well. and will be a good athlete.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">And that is definitely something Equall wants to do. “I think my times both in track and in cross country make it clear that I can compete at that level. In terms of what other people have run in their high school career, and I also think I have the will and drive to do that so yes, I’m 100% planning on doing that.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In late October Chase <a href="http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/sports/prep/cross-country/bozeman-cross-country-retains-titles/article_9053072d-2476-501a-adf2-1c51ac66d946.html">led the Hawks to their ninth straight state title</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Hawks boys reveled in their ninth consecutive Class AA state title Saturday in Kalispell, but they agreed this isn’t close to what they can accomplish.</span><span style="font-size: large;">Even though senior standout Chase Equall set a new classification record with his individual win, and even though Bozeman finished well ahead of runner-up Billings Senior (30-97), they asked, “What if?”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">No. 2 runner Orrin Clark didn’t compete because of a knee injury, and No. 4 Dylan Humberger had an asthma attack. Head coach Casey Jermyn didn’t hide his excitement for what he believes his team can accomplish when at full strength at the Nike Cross Regional Northwest meet Nov. 12.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“We still were dominant. This is not our peak,” Equall asserted. “State is important to us and we wanted to perform well. On the cool-down run we were talking about regionals.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">“Wow. These teams are really special,” Jermyn said. “There is still work to do. It’s going to be an exciting end to the season.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">Bozeman’s dominance shocked no one, but Equall’s 14:40 placed him among the state’s all-time best. He said he was aware of the all-class record of 14:37 set by former Montana State and Eureka great Shannon Butler in 1985, but not the AA mark.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">“I’m just very satisfied,” Equall said. “The race went great and my team did great. It’s what I was hoping for. To do it my senior year means a lot because I love this sport and I hope to continue to do this.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">Jermyn said Friday that he didn’t expect many personal bests because of long, thick grass at Rebecca Farms. The first-year coach said a concrete roller flattened the route and helped produce fast times.</span><span style="font-size: large;">Equall executed his strategy perfectly, Jermyn said. His pupil ran a steady first mile, took over in the second and then cruised.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Two weeks later <a href="http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/sports/prep/cross-country/hawks-xc-clinches-regional-crowns-eyes-nationals/article_c0a907c5-335f-57db-99df-bcaff126145f.html/#utm_source=bozemandailychronicle.com&utm_campaign=related-by-section&utm_medium=direct&utm_term=hawks%20xc%20clinches%20regional%20crowns%2C%20eyes%20nationals">the Hawks surged to the regional title</a> in Boise, led by Chase's second place finish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If there was pressure, the Hawks had it under control.</span><span style="font-size: large;">They were the focus throughout fall — the online rankings that labeled Bozeman’s cross-country teams tops in the northwest. Hawks head coach Casey Jermyn did his best to shield his runners from outside expectations, but all were aware of their status.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">There was comfort, however, in racing again Saturday afternoon at the Nike Cross Northwest Regional in Boise, Idaho. Last season, the girls won a second title there and the boys took second. These runners knew what needed to be done, Jermyn said, and didn’t disappoint.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bozeman delivered its most declarative statement yet. The Hawks claimed both regional titles for the first time and will head to the national meet in three weeks to continue adding to program history.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">“It just shows you how good these teams really are,” Jermyn said. “There’s a lot of coaches around the country that look at us and say, ‘What’s in the water? What’s going on?’”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">What’s happened is first-year coach Jermyn listened to his runners’ desires to win more than state titles. While in previous years Bozeman’s focus has been on being the best in Class AA, this fall goals were affixed to qualifying for and competing in Dec. 3’s national meet in Portland, Oregon.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That’s why the Hawks are only scratching the surface in terms of how fast they can go.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“You set these goals early in the summer and it’s something they look forward to,” Jermyn said. “To see it come to fruition is a special thing.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">There’s no better example than senior Chase Equall, who went from being a top 20 runner in the region to one of its best. Things didn’t go according to plan from the outset of the 5-kilometer race, though, and he was slowed at the start.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">“He got boxed in,” Jermyn said. “He was cool, calm and collected and slowly worked his way to the front. He took the lead at about the 1-mile mark, and kept the pace honest and broke up the front pack.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">It was then a dual between him and Tacoma, Washington’s James Mwaura. Mwaura edged Equall by five seconds in 15 minutes, 13.2 seconds. Junior Duncan Hamilton (15:40.1) wasn’t far behind in sixth.</span></blockquote>
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Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-64483283156537040172016-12-11T11:24:00.000-07:002016-12-13T07:06:55.194-07:00Ski Season Is Here (Avalanche Season Too)<span style="font-size: large;">It's here, it's now and it's real. After a mostly fair and unseasonably warm November, to the delight of local snowshoe trekkers, cross country and alpine skiers, ice climbers and snowmobile enthusiasts, winter has descended onto us hard and fast in the weeks following Thanksgiving. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The local ski area, Bridger Bowl, opened to excited crowds Friday. The skiing is delightful, as attested to by the opening day video.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are today's conditions.</span><br />
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<small style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12.4445px; line-height: inherit;">(since Nov 1)</small></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.88889rem; height: 40px; line-height: 1.11111rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0.55556rem;"><span data-loading="hide" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span id="snowReportSeasonalSnowBridger" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">47</span>"</span></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.88889rem; height: 40px; line-height: 1.11111rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0.55556rem;"><span data-loading="hide" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span id="snowReportSeasonalSnowAlpine" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">47</span>"</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Intrepid extreme skiers are hiking to The Ridge (search beacon transponders and shovels required) from where they can shoot down rocky chutes and tree-lined seams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The <a href="http://www.mtavalanche.com/">Gallitan National Forest Avalanche Center</a> has issued it's first set of warnings, blanketing close to 5,000 square miles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday we had our first serious avalanche incident of the season.</span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(207, 222, 245); border: 0px; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px; padding: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 18.6667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bridger Range</u></span> <span style="background: rgb(207, 222, 245); border: 0px; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px; padding: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 18.6667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Madison Range</u></span> <span style="background: rgb(207, 222, 245); border: 0px; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px; padding: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 18.6667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gallatin Range</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yesterday in the Northern Madison Range, a snowmobiler was caught and fully buried in an avalanche in the second Yellowmule on Buck Ridge. He was located with an avalanche beacon by his partners and was uncovered with minimal injuries for a fortunate outcome. This event highlights the importance of being prepared with the right gear and the right partners. The avalanche likely broke on a layer of weak sugary snow above an ice crust on the ground (<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.mtavalanche.com/images/16/buck-ridge-snowpit" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #33486f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">photo</a></strong>) and was on a heavily wind loaded slope.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Snowfall totals since Thursday equal 1” of <a href="https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/or/snow/?cid=nrcs142p2_046155" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #33486f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">snow water equivalent</a> (SWE) throughout our advisory area with over 1.5” of SWE in the southern ranges. Strong winds yesterday transported new snow into fresh drifts near ridgelines and increased the stress on buried weak layers (<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://youtu.be/A88djYbGEx4?list=PLXu5151nmAvQF9mZXCg1Xqg08x3Sfg0am" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #33486f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">video</a></strong>). Wind slabs and new snow slabs may rest over weak snow that formed on the surface during last week’s cold temperatures, and could be easy to trigger today. Avoid steep terrain if you see fresh wind slabs or cracking and collapsing in the new snow.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">New snow and wind-loading also added weight to a layer of weak facets near the ground (<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://youtu.be/8QUkJKAwWU8?list=PLXu5151nmAvQF9mZXCg1Xqg08x3Sfg0am" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #33486f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">video</a></strong>, <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://youtu.be/VBmLsCXZTqo?list=PLXu5151nmAvQF9mZXCg1Xqg08x3Sfg0am" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #33486f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">video</a></strong>, <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://youtu.be/9O1WTzWslUY?list=PLXu5151nmAvQF9mZXCg1Xqg08x3Sfg0am" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #33486f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">video</a></strong>). Ski patrols triggered avalanches on this layer over the last week (<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.mtavalanche.com/images/16/yellowstone-club-avalanche-12816" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #33486f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">photo</a></strong>, <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.mtavalanche.com/images/16/south-face-lone-peak-avalanche" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #33486f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">photo</a></strong>); and avalanches failed on this layer in the backcountry, including the one that caught and buried a snowmobiler yesterday on Buck Ridge. Wind loaded slopes will be the most likely place to trigger an avalanche on this layer, but avalanches are also possible on this layer on non-wind loaded slopes. Choose terrain with lower consequences and dig a hole to look for this layer before committing to steep terrain.<br />Recent snow and strong winds create unstable conditions today and the avalanche danger is rated </span><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: "Calibri, serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: rgb(248, 147, 29); border: 0px; font-weight: bolder; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="avayhzrd-considerable" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CONSIDERABLE</span></span>.</strong></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this blog we have documented <a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2014/01/beware-avalanche.html">again</a>, and <a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2015/04/skiing-into-oblivion.html">again</a>, and <a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2014/12/avalanche-advisories-issued.html">again</a>, and <a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2014/03/more-avalanche.html">again</a> the deadly impacts of avalanche. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>A skier was killed in an avalanche on Henderson Mountain outside Cooke City today. We will have more information the the coming days.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>— GNF Avalanche Center (@AvalancheGuys) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvalancheGuys/status/808137923598098433">December 12, 2016</a></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Update 12/12/16:</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Some more details <a href="http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/idaho-man-identified-as-skier-killed-in-cooke-city-avalanche/article_7ec1fcf9-2528-5ae1-b8af-0e0b2af20a1c.html">reported today</a>.</i></span><br />
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Officials have identified the skier who died Sunday afternoon in an avalanche north of Cooke City.<br />
Christopher Peterson, 55, of Ketchum, Idaho, was killed after being buried in an avalanche on the north slope of Henderson Mountain.<br />
The avalanche was reported to be 6 feet deep and 100 feet wide, according to the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center.<br />
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Peterson, who was skiing with six others, was completely buried and located at the base of a tree with a transceiver by members of his party, the Avalanche Center said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/friendsgnfac/posts/10154712029965030" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4175aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a statement posted to Facebook</a>.<br />
They dug Peterson up within 15 to 20 minutes, but could not resuscitate him with CPR. When rescuers arrived, they took over and tried an AED to revive Peterson, but he was pronounced dead.<br />
Another skier was partially buried but wasn’t hurt.</blockquote>
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Yesterday, Eric and I investigated the avalanche that killed a skier on Henderson Mountain outside Cooke City. The skier was in a party of 5 and his descent was the 7<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> track on the slope when it avalanched. He was carried into the trees and buried under 5’ of snow. Another person was buried to his waist, uninjured, as he stood in the runout zone. The victim was found with avalanche transceivers and dug up in 15-20 minutes. CPR was initiated, but unsuccessful as trauma was a likely factor in his death. The slope was only 250 vertical feet, but steep, averaging 40 degrees. The crown was 3’ deep and the path was 150’ wide. The avalanche broke on a layer of weak, sugary facets sitting on an ice crust 1’ above the ground. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Main Street was bordered with Montana State flags and banners on the lampposts throughout downtown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We set up across from Ted's Montana Grill. This is about as close to the food source as you can get, for Ted Turner's Flying D ranch, where the buffalo roam, is down the road to Big Sky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We are Montana, so, of course, there was a horse troop..</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Then horses hauling the <a href="http://www.murdochs.com/">Murdoch's Ranch and Home Supply</a> covered wagon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Followed by a pooper scooper to pick up offerings left behind by equine friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then came the Montana State "Spirit of the West" marching band. Note the mascot, foreground, laying one down a with a young fan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Marching band alumni converted to towed band status.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most of the Tubas had "Thank You Norm" covers. Who is Norm?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before getting to that, first, the university president's Mercedes went kaput. That's what you get for driving non-American. Four beefy guys pitched in to push.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Assisted by a not so beefy little girl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And yes, Norm is Norm Ashjornson, BS MSU 1960 and Honorary Ph.D. 2014. How does Norm get the recognition?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Generosity. Norm (in the antique jalopy) <a href="http://www.montana.edu/news/12467/msu-alumnus-norm-asbjornson-pledges-50-million-to-msu-for-its-college-of-engineering">pledged $50 million</a> to build a new engineering center on campus and had the good sense to do so while still living.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The politicians showed up. Incumbent Democrat Governor and lawyer Steve Bullock (left center in blue coat) tried to smile and be approachable -- really.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte (cowboy hat) was moving so fast, in and out of the crowd, greeting people and shaking hands, that I didn't get a picture of him until he had passed. There is something to be said for the energy and grit of someone who has built businesses bottom up and has created thousands of fantastic paying jobs doing so, as opposed to a life spent proselytizing behind a lectern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you are a Democrat and you want to impress voters, then show off your two seat Smart car, a vehicle that no one in their right mind would rely on to motor through a Montana winter. And call yourself Denise Juneau, support Common Core, market yourself as gay and Native American, and get slaughtered at the ballot box in November. Yes, Denise Juneau wants to regulate our lives and she is happy to say that she will do so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Atlas Van Lines is the official moving van of the Montana State football Bobcats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bridger Orthopedic are official team physicians for the Bobcats. The football season is mere warm up for the orthopedic set, Their salad days are coming with a burst in demand sure to occur when the local ski areas open around Thanksgiving day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have you wondered how people get around on bicycles during Montana winters? Those big balloon tires float through the snow and provide broader traction on ice -- some are even equipped with studs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What would a homecoming be without a homecoming king and queen? Voting in unconventional royalty has become conventional, and so it is with Montana State.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Homecoming would not be real without floats sponsored by the Greeks on campus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The SAE's were there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shades of Animal House.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Sigma Chi float was populated mostly by girls. I suppose the guys were still sleeping Friday night off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Closest to home was the Bozeman High School Marching Band.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our family was represented by Blythe front and center, straddling the center yellow lines. Our green haired drummer, Blake, is in Germany this school year. When she returns for senior year perhaps she will contribute some newly acquired Oom Pah Pah to Hawks musical lineup. The <a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2014/07/lone-star-legacy-introducing-joseph.html">marching band gene runs in the family</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had never heard of a Fanbulance, but there was one in the parade, serving fans who would be stricken by starvation if they didn't have a ready vehicle for pre-game tailgating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you want to impress Montanans bring out your 938K Cat wheel end loader. They sell for around $200 K.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And follow up with a big fork lift urging the Bobcats to Fork the Hawks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The best political play was put on by Roger Koopman an incumbent running for a seat on the public service commission. Roger says he is Pro Energy and Pro Consumer. He's got the eagle, he has the trio singing "God Bless the USA" and he has sunshine on his side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And though it has nothing at all to do with energy development or electricity rates, Roger makes it clear he is a stand up guy for the national anthem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Montana State is the home of Bobcat Rodeo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its College of Agriculture is also home for the Pre-Veterinary Club, Collegiate Cattle Women of Montana State and Stock Growers of Montana State. There's more cattle than people in Montana -- virtually every one of them grass fed -- corn and soybeans don't grow here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And followed by the street sweepers to clean the final traces of horse manure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Alas, Montana State lost a hard fought game 17 to 15. Wait 'til next year.</span>Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-2493891613717229842016-09-10T23:39:00.000-06:002016-09-10T23:39:02.243-06:00September 11, 2001, We Remember (Repost)<div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It’s been fifteen years. Our daughter Blake was a baby, only ten months old. Teresa was pregnant with Blythe. Bella was not born for four more years. My kids ask questions, trying to understand – wondering about the underlying causes and what it was like to live through that day. When we still lived in Arlington we visited the Pentagon Memorial. It is a solemn and surprisingly solitary place despite being hemmed in by major thoroughfares and lying adjacent to a structure, which gauged by size of its footprint, is the world's largest office building. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This is my story, one among millions -- a personal recollection of that day's experience, or more specifically that morning, in Washington, DC and Arlington, Virginia (where the Pentagon is located). I worked in an office building at L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, DC, across the Potomac River about a mile and a half northeast of the Pentagon. We lived in Arlington Virginia, between Arlington Boulevard and Columbia Pike, about a mile and one-half west of the Pentagon. Our world as we knew it was shattered that day, but the tragedy was inflicted on others -- innocents to a person.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It came to be that 184 souls lost their earthly lives when American Airlines Flight 77 sliced through the west wall of the Pentagon. Their Boeing 757 passenger jet took off at 8:20 am from Washington Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles. But the plane was commandeered as it climbed over West Virginia and turned back by terrorist hijackers towards DC. The Falkenberg family was aboard, on the first leg of their trip to Australia for a two month adventure, owing to dad’s good fortune in securing an academic fellowship. Daughters Zoe, 8, and Dana, 3, were excited by the prospect of the unique geography and exotic wildlife they were sure to encounter down under. Also flying to Los Angeles that day were two staff members of the National Geographic Society, accompanying three Washington, DC teachers and three elementary school students selected for an educational Pacific Coast excursion, along with varied business and pleasure travelers like you would find aboard most any flight over the United States on any given day. But their flight would not terminate at a gate at LAX; it would end tragically against a limestone wall by the helipad along the west wall of the Pentagon at 9:37 am.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Pentagon lays at the eastern terminus of Columbia Pike, which is the major thoroughfare cutting through south Arlington. We lived four blocks off of Columbia Pike.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Looking down the slope at the end of Columbia Pike towards the Potomac River is the Pentagon, bordered by Arlington National Cemetery, the Navy Annex (now the Air Force Memorial) and Shirley Highway (I-395). On the other side of the Pentagon, and across the river, is the office building where I worked, and further, is the United States Capitol. These landmarks lay along a corridor where news is made daily, typically by talking heads on TV, by witnesses in hearing rooms, by elected or appointed officials, or by lawyers and legislators plying their trade in judicial or legislative chambers. When news moves outdoors along this axis, it normally is in the form of civil protest or peaceful assembly, a ceremony of great moment such as the transfer of power to a newly elected president, or a festival celebrating country, heritage or history. But on September 11th a different kind of news reverberated back up the Pike and into our neighborhood. According to neighbors who were home at the time, houses shook and windows rattled within moments of impact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">September 11th dawned a gorgeous day. The sky was crystal clear. Late summer wafted through the air mixed with a hint of fall. No haze. No smog. No humidity to speak of. I commuted to work across the 14th Street Bridge as I had thousands of times previous. I worked a late schedule so I could drop baby Blake at day care (downstairs in L’Enfant Plaza) around 9:00 am while Teresa worked an early schedule so she could pick up Blake by 4:00 pm. I returned to day care lunchtime to play with Blake; we wanted to minimize her institutional isolation. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">After dropping Blake off, as usual I retraced my steps along the plaza corridor and took the elevator up to my 8th floor office. Behind my desk the windows looked west, offering a view of the Washington Monument, the Custis Lee Mansion high up in Arlington National Cemetery and, though I had not previously given it much note, the roof of the Pentagon jutting above the office building immediately next door.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We convened an intra-office meeting to discuss a topic or topics of the day and plan strategy. We were asking the Postal Service Board to authorize filing a postal rate case. The year had been one of considerable economic turmoil, with the economy falling into recession as the dot.com bubble burst. But it looked like the US economy was on the verge of recovery. No doubt our discussion touched on those matters, when suddenly, Norm from budget stuck his head in the door, yelling, “You gotta find a TV – a plane flew into the World Trade Center!” Like many who first heard the news, we thought a single engine Cessna or some other small general aviation aircraft had flown into the building. With the unlimited visibility of the day, I thought it had to be a suicide or someone performing a stunt that went horribly awry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We had a monitor set up for playing video tapes and displaying computer presentations; after rooting around we found a coaxial cable, figured out which outlet to hook into to get a cable feed and tune in the television news, only to learn another plane had hit the second tower at the World Trade Center. It was a large passenger jet, no Piper Cub. This was an intentional attack -- terrorism, a declaration of war. Tens of thousands of people worked in those buildings. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In our geekiness, we calculated how many people might have been above the points of impact and how many below. Someone remarked that New York is a late city -- offices didn't fill up until 9:30 or 10:00. We talked about the horror of the event, geopolitical and economic impacts, and recounted personal experiences in, at or near the twin towers. A colleague had breakfasted that summer at Windows on the World, atop the north tower. From a downtown New York City visit, I remembered a small church which stood dwarfed by the nearby modern towers. One among us noted the National Association of Business Economists (NABE) was having its annual conference at the World Trade Center Marriott – we knew folks who were at ground zero at that very moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Later, the wife of a NABE member in who accompanied her husband at the Marriott conference, <a href="http://911digitalarchive.org/smithsonian/details/4643">recounted her harrowing experience</a>:</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Bob, who is a principal for DRI-WEFA, an economics consulting firm, was giving a presentation at the National Association for Business Economics on the first floor of the Marriott Hotel located between the WTC Twin Towers. At 8:46 a.m., the building shook. Debris began falling from the ceiling and people started running out of the conference room—it was sheer pandemonium. Bob helped pick up six people who had been trampled by the crowd. No one knew that the first hijacked plane, American Airlines Flight 11, had just struck the North Tower. At the same time, I heard a loud crashing noise and then something hitting the window of our hotel room on the 15th floor. When I looked out, I saw smoldering papers falling from the sky and fire and smoke billowing out of the North Tower. On the ground, people were racing out of the hotel onto the plaza between the two towers while fire darted all around.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">... we were directed by the firefighters to exit via Liberty Street. Once we were on the street, the firefighters began yelling, “Run! Don’t look up! Run”. Just then, I tripped over a large piece of twisted metal that had fallen from one of the Towers and badly bruised my face and left foot and cut both knees. Bob quickly helped me up as one of the firefighters rushed over. We continued down the Joe DiMaggio Highway. Along the route were signs of the devastation. We saw a wheel from one of the planes, an abandoned car slammed into a storefront, and several body parts including someone’s arm along the sidewalk. As we made our escape, shopkeepers, firefighters, and police remained behind…while scores of ambulances raced towards the burning Towers.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">About 1,000 guests stayed at the hotel that day. Approximately 50 people, mostly firefighters, died in the hotel.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">That “elephant landing on the roof” sound [NABE attendee] Witt heard was the landing gear from American Airlines Flight 11 crashing atop the hotel.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">T</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">hen 9/11 came to us</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">. An accountant from a neighboring office ran into our suite. She screamed and pointed out the window. Turning heads, we saw a cone of dark, oily smoke rising from the Pentagon. I walked over to Greg M’s desk – he had been an Air Force pilot. I asked, “Greg, what’s burning?” He said “That's jet fuel.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I walked to the end of the hall to get a better look from a window that provided an unimpeded view across the river, when my boss appeared. He had been on the top floor sitting in on the Board of Governors meeting, in a room where there are floor to ceiling windows overlooking the Potomac. He said in his peripheral vision he saw a fireball at impact (sorry conspiracy theorists I know three impact eye witnesses, plus others who saw the plane seconds before impact). The third intentional crash of the day had not yet been reported in the media, but we knew exactly what had happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Okay, I thought, they are coming to get us. Who knows what will happen next? I need to grab Blake and get out of town. I called Teresa’s office (at the Navy Yard) to tell her I would pick up Blake. Her boss answered the phone. These people are pros, people who address forces bent on harming our country on a daily basis I thought -- they would be calm. But her boss lived in the northernmost of the three buildings that make up the River House apartment complex, at the corner of Army Navy Drive and South Joyce Street in the Pentagon City section of Arlington, which meant none resided closer to the Pentagon than she, a fact that I neglected to consider in the moment. I said, “Hi Mickey, this is Grady. They just got the Pentagon -- another plane.” She gasped, asked a quick question or two and suddenly hung up before I had a chance to ask for Teresa. I called back, getting a busy signal again and again, the rapid beeping all circuits busy kind of signal -- too late to get through.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I hustled down to the day care in the underground mall at L'Enfant Plaze where I retrieved Blake and strapped her into an umbrella stroller. We rushed back against the pedestrian flow (people were streaming down the plaza hall to Metrorail) and returned to the basement garage. After strapping Blake in her car seat, I turned the ignition and heard a news radio report that the WTC South Tower had collapsed, pancaked down to the ground. There was also a report (unfounded we now know) of an explosion at the State Department. The last I checked, to my surprise, it looked like the approaches to the 14th Street Bridge were still open even though that route skirted past the Pentagon. I decided on the 14th Street, I-395/Pentagon route because I expected now the alternative, cutting across the mall and down Constitution Avenue to Memorial Bridge, would be gridlocked or blocked with the State Department under attack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Approaching the Pentagon, the Washington Boulevard exit that I customarily use was blocked off, the ramp crowded by dozens of police, fire and various other official vehicles staged for duty. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pentagon employees streaming away from the fire<br />on the Washington Boulevard Ramp from I-395. The </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I skipped the next interchange (Glebe Rd/Shirlington) because exiting traffic was backed up more than a mile, and continued on to the King Street exit, surmising that the traffic would be lighter circling back home in any event. After exiting, the arterial streets were clogged so I veered off onto neighborhood streets and zigzagged my way homeward, stopping at the first gas station along the way to fill up, so as to be prepared for a distant evacuation if that came to be. When I got up towards Columbia Pike I saw it had been closed down to all but emergency vehicles – we were allowed to cross the Pike when the coast was intermittently clear -- no wonder traffic was a total mess. I noticed fire engines and an ambulance were parked in front of the Glebe Road, Fire Station No.1 at the end of our section of South 5th Street – not Arlington County FD issue but vehicles imported from Loudoun and Fairfax Counties. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">ACFD Station 1 units were <a href="http://www.arlingtonva.us/departments/Fire/Documents/after_report.pdf" target="_blank">otherwise engaged</a>.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px;">Teresa and Blythe inspecting </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In Arlington County, Captain Steve McCoy and the crew of Engine 101 were </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">en route to a session in Crystal City, traveling north on Interstate 395. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Their conversation about the World Trade Center attack was interrupted by the </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">sight of a commercial airliner in steep descent, banking sharply to its right before </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">disappearing beyond the horizon. At 9:38 a.m., shortly after American Airlines </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Flight #77 disappeared from sight, a tremendous explosion preceded a massive </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">plume of smoke and fire. Unable to pinpoint the precise location, Captain McCoy </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">immediately radioed the Arlington County Emergency Communications Center </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">(ECC), reporting an airplane crash in the vicinity of the 14th Street Bridge or in </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Crystal City. Aware of the World Trade Center attack, Captain McCoy also </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">advised that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) should be notified, since </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">this was a possible terrorist attack.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The unit continued on and was first on scene. Engine 101 operates out of Fire Station No. 1. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In accordance with long-standing regional mutual aid agreements, by 10:00 am that morning the units parked at street's end had migrated in from outlying jurisdictions, while Arlington squads were fighting the fire at the Pentagon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As I pulled into our driveway I looked up and down the street – by the absence of other vehicles it appeared I was among the first home. The street scene was eerily peaceful, almost bucolic, if it were not for the incessant wailing of sirens in the background punctuated periodically by roars of low flying F-16 aircraft. I learned later those DC National Guard jets had <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/f-16-pilot-was-ready-to-give-her-life-on-sept-11/2011/09/06/gIQAMpcODK_story.html" target="_blank">no opportunity to arm</a> – they scrambled that morning unarmed understanding that if a threatening aircraft were ordered to be taken down theirs would become a <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44459345/ns/us_news-9_11_ten_years_later/t/kamikaze-f--pilots-planned-ram-flight/#.UhvfOht1-8A" target="_blank">Kamikaze mission</a>. The only option was to ram.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">At home I turned on the TV news and logged onto AOL, sending emails to family and friends, letting them know we were OK. Periodically I would stick my head out the front door, to check for Teresa and returning neighbors. I knew some worked at the Pentagon. Thankfully, there were no neighborhood victims. Jeremiah, an Air Force officer who lived across the street, worked on a corridor of the Pentagon that burned, but he had attended a meeting that morning at Andrews AFB. When time came for his next rotation Jeremiah transferred to Central Command, McDill Air Force Base Tampa, where he looked forward to the opportunity to avenge the deaths of buddies. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A neighbor known to us as “Fireman Bob” was a first responder; he later described victims literally fried to a crisp as they sat at their desks hands extended over keyboards. Teresa had a colleague who worked at the point of impact, one of the few people who can credit their survival to ignoring the Surgeon General’s anit-tobacco warning – when the plane struck she was in the Pentagon courtyard on a smoke break.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Teresa arrived home an hour after I. A thought that popped into my head when I saw the Pentagon burning was Teresa would not leave her job – she would be assigned to work the response. But she left her job and we went down to Texas as planned, on interstate highways that were virtually deserted. It turns out that her agency's Afghanistan task force was not formed until the following week. Now, fifteen years later, some of her former colleagues still work Afghanistan, the war of doubling down and tripling down, the war without end.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Afghanistan invasion was initiated on the last day of our return trip from Texas. Fort Bragg was active. We stopped by and heard training exercises -- artillery shells exploding in the distance. We were told to tune in to news radio as we continued our drive up I-95. Something was going down. And it did.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">So it was. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">So what do we do now? We remember. How?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I raced in Fire and Sheriff 9/11 Memorial 5Ks, where a portion of the course snaked around the Pentagon. Afterwards, we talked to families and friends of fallen NYFD firefighters who came down to run wearing matching tee-shirts emblazoned with name and rank, and the NYFD emblem, to honor their loved departed. We commiserated over pizza and beer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Note that now for security reasons the outline of the Pentagon is blotted out on many on-line maps.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Not that it matters, but in the First Annual Memorial 5K, on September 7, 2002, I finished 618th among the males and 136th in my age group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">When I last raced in 2008 I finished 1016th among the males and 57th in a more advanced age group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We remember by our dress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Back in our old Arlington neighborhood, 184 flags hang from the rafters in the Thomas Jefferson Community Center and Middle School in memory of each of the victims. Whether in the gym for a workout, to shoot some baskets, to tour exhibits during the county fair or to watch Blake cheer on the basketball team to victory, we looked up and remembered.</span><br />
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Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-46419363109920092822016-09-05T11:52:00.000-06:002016-09-05T16:40:01.992-06:00Putting a Toe in the Water<span style="font-size: large;">We haven't blogged much this year at Along The Gradyent for a number of reasons, not the least of which is focus on family and health.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the health front I am proud to say I dropped 60 pounds since the first of the year. To get there we changed our diet and ramped up our exercise program. I look forward to continued weight loss. I intend to keep up the new regimen -- now a set of habits -- for a very long time, let's say the rest of my life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I increased the distance of weekday swims from around 1400 yards with multiple breaks, to 1500 to 1600 meters continuous. This entails more work increase than the longer distance alone suggests, because of less frequent push offs from 50 meter lengths (compared to 20 yard widths). Although Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky have nothing to fear, I've picked up the pace by a good 25 percent as well. Unlike previous years, in 2016 I kept swimming throughout the spring and summer after the golf season opened. To ease the doubling up in the beginning I rode a golf cart. But as of late I've been swimming in the mornings and walking all 18 holes on the links. At times there is even a little spring in my step, especially a couple of weeks ago when I celebrated my first hole in one, on the par 3, 146-yard 14th hole at Cottonwood Hills.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hole in one ball -- a cut seven iron uphill on the uphill 146 yard (measured on a rangefinder that day) par 3 14th hole at Cottonwood Hills Golf Club in Bozeman, Montana. The tee was all the way back and the pin was on a little ridge in the front section of the green. We saw the ball hit the front edge, hop once and then roll along the left to right slope and melt into the cup.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I completely eliminated sugary drinks from my diet. This is an enormous change, as I had been a dedicated fan and prodigious drinker of Coca Cola virtually from birth. I reduced food portions mostly from 30 to 50 percent and have enjoyed our fresh home garden harvest this year (carrots, beets, potatoes, onions, radish, broccoli, peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes included).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the family front, our oldest daughter applied and successfully competed for a slot in the Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) program yielding an academic year in Germany. I am proud of her for showing the initiative to apply and then her performance and poise throughout the essay writing and interview process, as well as building a record of involvement and accomplishment that put her in the mix. Two Montana students were awarded the scholarship this year. According to the <a href="http://www.usagermanyscholarship.org/app/">program's web site</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After a few early August days touring in our nation's capital with her fellow CBYX scholars, they flew to Frankfurt and hopped on a train to Hamburg where the scholars bonded during the course of a three week intensive language camp. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blake has been with her permanent host family for just over a week now in the hamlet of Plau am See (6,055 population) where she will spend her junior year of high school attending the Gynasium at Malchow (just across the "See"). The first full weekend in town she has already posted pictures from a visit to Berlin (50 miles distant). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blake was Gold Award Winner in the Level 3 National German Test (90 or above percentile) last spring. Our family hosted Lisa, a German foreign exchange student for the 2014-15 academic year, who has let it be known she hopes Blake will "visit her favorite foreign exchange student" auf Deutschland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our middle daughter is blossoming beyond belief. She traveled to Japan this summer with her aunt where she put to full use her startling command over the Japanese language achieved courtesy of YouTube. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Among a wide variety of experiences they visited, Asa, the Japanese foreign exchange student who we hosted uncer the aegis of the 4H program in the summer of 2014,. You wouldn't think there a whole lot of opportunity for international culture exchange here in Montana, eh? Blythe started high school last week, where she hit the ground running almost literally as a happy and involved member of the Bozeman High School Hawks marching band.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our youngest child, age 10, is the strange kid, the odd kid, the out of sync kid, a kid who is totally nonstandard in this world of data driven top down standards based education. Which means she was a problem kid last year as far as her teacher and newly minted gung ho common core principal were concerned (previously she had fantastic teachers). She got picked on, demeaned and bullied (including assaults) by classmates and labelled a liar by her principal. We learned the hard way those anti-bullying signs they have every 50 feet in the hallways in the public schools are just that -- signs. We had to pull her out of school last spring and now are focusing on undoing the damage and hoping to get her committed to our home school program. In a fit of anger, she destroyed my computer (and much of my blogging research) in the aftermath. We got her a cat from the shelter a few weeks ago -- HER cat. There are signs of hope. No matter how many tries and how much time are required, we are going to make this work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of our fun activities over the summer was attending the Bozeman Stampede Rodeo. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Competitions included calf roping,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My buddy Buzz says the rodeo requires scramblers to sign a waiver certifying they don't have an IQ over 70. You may have noticed the last man standing (who had already won by virtue of being the last remaining in the circle) did not respond to the yelled instruction to get out of the circle before the bull threw him into the air.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As for the future I intend to continue research and writing. I have a couple of Morton Grove history posts in mind, and have a bunch of ideas for new genealogy posts. Some will be on parts of relatives lives I have not previously written on (like my grandfather Ike's auctioneer career), others will be on relatives not previously featured, and yet others will supplement posts previously written (for example, the on-line digitization of the Los Angeles Times published in August makes newly available dozens of references on my uncle <a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2014/02/on-road-to-bathgate-act-4f-lyndon-r.html">Lyn R. ("Red") Foster</a>). I have a new Glen View Club post or two to get on to after I reconstruct research, and I intend to focus some on Bozeman, after getting acquainted with the resources available at the Gallitan County Historical Society and the Bozeman Library. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I write this post on Labor Day, September 5, 2016, because we have an early taste of late fall/early winter. Temperatures are in the 40s. It is rainy. When the clouds clear from the mountains I suspect we will see snow. Until later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bozeman American Legion Post 14 sponsored the Memorial Day parade down Main Street today honoring those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in defense of family, neighbor, life and liberty. Here we share memories of the day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Boy Scouts from Belgrade passed out American flags to spectators up and down the route to wave in recognition of the participants and to honor of those who gave their lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The stars of the parade were veterans who served in wars and campaigns from World War II, to the Korean War, to Viet Nam, to Desert Storm and Desert Shield, to the Iraqi and Afghanistan operations, and others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We welcomed and applauded Viet Nam veterans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">American Legion Post 14 ferried some of the less mobile veterans in a well appointed jitney.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Honoring World War II ace and Medal of Honor recipient Joe Foss though scholarships and fellowship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Military marching music provided by the Bozeman "Hawks" High School marching band.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Accompaniment on the bass drum by a certain green haired young lady who we are proud to say is recipient of the Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange scholarship, and will attend the Gymnasium next school year in Plau Am See, Germany. Blake, make sure to say hi to Angela for us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you get in a heap of trouble down at Big Sky, in Bear Canyon, Yellowstone National Park or anywhere else nearby, chances are the rescue will be via the Gallitan County Search and Rescue, a volunteer operation coordinated by the Sheriff's department.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every winter they rescue (or sadly recover) skiers, hikers and snow mobile enthusiasts marooned or caught in avalanches in the back country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is a horse drill team, appropriately dressed in US Cavalry regalia, seeing as Fort Ellis, just east of Town, was a historic military outpost providing security for Bozeman from 1867 to 1886.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fort Ellis all volunteer FD is my local department. If you roll over along I-90 east of town headed up to Bozeman Pass likely it will be Fort Ellis EMTs and firefighters that extract the victims, provide first aid and ensure safe transport Bozeman Deaconess hospital. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Come visit you hear. And stop and shop at Murdoch's on North 7th Avenue so you can dress up everything West and Montana. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Up the Sierra Nevada mountain range, the snowpack is near normal, which means rivers will continue to flow strong and refresh the reservoirs as snowmelt steps in to replace the lucre of falling precip. Nine months ago, after three years of significantly below normal precipitation, many reservoirs were at record or near-record lows; the U. S. Government said 99.9 percent of the Golden State was in drought. Now with many reservoirs filling up and spillways here and there opened to create capacity for snowmelt or future rains, Uncle Sam says 98.6 percent of the state is still in drought.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Look see at the Drought Monitor put out by USDA, NOAA and the Department of Commerce (if a rating system has three government agencies and all their <a href="http://gov.iu.edu/policies/lobbying/schedule-c.shtml">Schedule C appointees</a>, life-tenured bureaucrats and scientists behind it has gotta be really, really good).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-california-reservoir-too-full-el-nino-20160325-story.html">Los Angeles Times seems</a> is a bit quicker on the uptake.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">California's largest reservoir filling too fast thanks to El Nino, must release more water</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">The El Niño-fueled storms that </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-el-nino-landscape-reservoirs-20160323-htmlstory.html" style="background-color: white; color: #4591b8; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration: none;">have swept through Northern California</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;"> in recent weeks have swelled some of the state’s largest reservoirs to encouraging levels even as the state's drought persists.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">One of </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-how-el-nino-is-rapidly-filling-california-s-once-anemic-reserviors-20160315-htmlstory.html" style="background-color: white; color: #4591b8; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration: none;">the biggest beneficiaries </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">has been Lake Shasta, a keystone reservoir of the Central Valley project, which serves California growers.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">To make room in Shasta for water from last weekend’s storms, the Federal Bureau of Reclamation ramped up releases from 5,000 cubic feet per second to 20,000 cubic feet per second on March 18. It was the first time since 2011 that the bureau released water into the upper Sacramento River at such a rapid rate, said spokesman Shane Hunt.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">Officials began slowing the releases again on Wednesday, Hunt said. The rate is expected to return to around 5,000 cubic feet per second by Monday.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;"> </span></blockquote>
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“We never got to the point where the increased releases drew the lake down at all,” Hunt said. “We just slowed how fast we were gaining.”<br />
Lake Shasta, he added, is “still gaining storage and will continue to do so.”</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">Lake Shasta is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_Project">the most important water resource</a> in the state.</span><br />
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Shasta Division consists of a pair of large dams on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_River" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sacramento River">Sacramento River</a> north of the city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redding,_California" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Redding, California">Redding</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-shastatrinity_4-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_Project#cite_note-shastatrinity-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_Dam" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Shasta Dam">Shasta Dam</a> is the primary water storage and power generating facility of the CVP. It impounds the Sacramento River to form <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_Lake" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Shasta Lake">Shasta Lake</a>, which can store over 4,500,000 acre feet (5,600,000 dam<sup style="line-height: 1;">3</sup>) of water, and can generate 680 MW of power.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ShastaDam_5-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_Project#cite_note-ShastaDam-5" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_Project#cite_note-6" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a></sup>Shasta Dam functions to regulate the flow of the Sacramento River so that downstream diversion dams and canals can capture the flow of the river more efficiently, and to prevent flooding in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento-San_Joaquin_Delta" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta">Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta</a> where many water pump facilities for San Joaquin Valley aqueducts are located.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-shastatrinity_4-1" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_Project#cite_note-shastatrinity-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keswick_Dam" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Keswick Dam">Keswick Dam</a> functions as an afterbay (regulating reservoir) for the Shasta Dam, also generating power.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Keswick_7-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_Project#cite_note-Keswick-7" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_Project#cite_note-8" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a></sup><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_Project#cite_note-8" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"></a></sup>The Sacramento Canals Division of the CVP takes water from the Sacramento River much farther downstream of the Shasta and Keswick Dams. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversion_dam" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Diversion dam">Diversion dams</a>, pumping plants, and aqueducts provide municipal water supply as well as irrigation of about 98,000 acres (4,000,000 dam<sup style="line-height: 1;">2</sup>).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sacramentocanals_9-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_Project#cite_note-sacramentocanals-9" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a></sup> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bluff_Diversion_Dam" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Red Bluff Diversion Dam">Red Bluff Diversion Dam</a> diverts part of the Sacramento River<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-RedBluff_10-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_Project#cite_note-RedBluff-10" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a></sup>into the 110-mile (180 km) Tehama-Colusa Canal, the 21-mile (34 km) Corning Canal and a small reservoir formed by Funks Dam.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Funks_11-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_Project#cite_note-Funks-11" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a></sup> Five pump plants take water from the canal and feed it to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colusa_County,_California" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Colusa County, California">Colusa County</a> water distribution grid.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sacramentocanals_9-1" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_Project#cite_note-sacramentocanals-9" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a></sup></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the up-to-date water storage graph for Lake Shasta. Notice last week's kink caused by the Bureau of Reclamation spillway openings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lake Shasta is filled to 87 percent of capacity, 109 percent of normal for this day of the year, and 100 percent of the average seasonal peak. Its 3,944,441 stored acre feet are about 50 percent more than the same day last year, more than double the storage during the debilitating 1976-1977 drought, and just a few ticks below the drought busting season of 1977-1978. Shasta would be more than 90 percent full if the spillways had not opened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Following is the Lake Shasta picture for the last month in numbers. RES ELE is the reservoir elevation (water level), STORAGE is the water stored in acre feet, RES CHG, is the daily change in water stored, OUTFLOW is the water outflow, INFLOW is the water inflow, EVAP is water lost to evaporation, PPT INC is daily precipitation and RAIN is precipitation for the rain season to date. Accumulated rainfall for the season is 59.81 inches. That's five feet -- a lot of water.</span><br />
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padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/jspplot/jspPlotServlet.jsp?sensor_no=11532&end=03/25/2016+14:20&geom=small&interval=30&cookies=cdec01" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">RAIN</a> </i></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td><td align="right" bgcolor="e0e0e0"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/jspplot/jspPlotServlet.jsp?sensor_no=9168&end=03/25/2016+14:20&geom=small&interval=30&cookies=cdec01" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SPILL</a> </i></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td><td align="right" bgcolor="e0e0e0"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/jspplot/jspPlotServlet.jsp?sensor_no=9167&end=03/25/2016+14:20&geom=small&interval=30&cookies=cdec01" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DIS PWR</a> </i></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td><td align="right" bgcolor="e0e0e0"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FEET</b></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td><td align="right" bgcolor="e0e0e0"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AF</b></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td><td align="right" bgcolor="e0e0e0"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AF</b></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td><td align="right" bgcolor="e0e0e0"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AF</b></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td><td align="right" bgcolor="e0e0e0"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AF</b></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td><td align="right" bgcolor="e0e0e0"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CFS</b></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td><td align="right" bgcolor="e0e0e0"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CFS</b></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td><td align="right" bgcolor="e0e0e0"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CFS</b></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td><td align="right" bgcolor="e0e0e0"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CFS</b></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td><td align="right" bgcolor="e0e0e0"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CFS</b></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td><td align="right" bgcolor="e0e0e0"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">INCHES</b></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td><td align="right" bgcolor="e0e0e0"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">INCHES</b></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td><td align="right" bgcolor="e0e0e0"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CFS</b></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td><td align="right" bgcolor="e0e0e0"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CFS</b></span></td><td bgcolor="e0e0e0"></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">02/25/2016</td><td align="right">994.89</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2718821</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">13525</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3922775</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-1203954</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2725</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">9588</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">44</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">8261</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.00</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">42.42</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2725</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">02/26/2016</td><td align="right">995.47</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2731133</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">12312</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3938718</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-1207585</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3106</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">9388</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">75</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">8124</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.00</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">42.42</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3106</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">02/27/2016</td><td align="right">996.09</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2744318</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">13185</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3954565</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-1210247</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2704</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">9382</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">31</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">8270</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.13</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">42.55</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2704</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">02/28/2016</td><td align="right">996.74</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2758203</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">13885</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3969538</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-1211335</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2653</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">9703</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">50</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">7933</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.09</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">42.64</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2653</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">02/29/2016</td><td align="right">997.11</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2766120</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">7917</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3990848</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-1224728</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3002</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">7050</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">57</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">8102</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.00</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">42.64</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3002</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/01/2016</td><td align="right">997.49</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2774282</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">8162</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">4013234</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-1238952</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2381</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">6521</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">25</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">6633</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.00</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">42.64</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2381</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/02/2016</td><td align="right">998.01</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2785453</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">11171</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">4031495</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-1246042</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2353</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">8074</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">89</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">7380</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.00</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">42.64</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2353</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/03/2016</td><td align="right">998.81</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2802729</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">17276</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">4037412</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-1234683</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">1546</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">10345</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">89</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">10927</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.00</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">42.64</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">1546</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/04/2016</td><td align="right">999.62</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2820293</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">17564</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">4054216</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-1227720</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2223</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">11110</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">32</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">8974</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.08</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">42.72</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2223</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/05/2016</td><td align="right">1002.51</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2883477</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">63184</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">4005238</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-1115764</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2079</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">33940</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">36317</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">1.99</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">44.71</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2079</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/06/2016</td><td align="right">1006.46</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2971399</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">87922</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3927121</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-949947</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">1179</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">45513</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">53629</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">1.78</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">46.49</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">1179</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/07/2016</td><td align="right">1009.52</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3040780</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">69381</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3872742</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-831942</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2407</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">37413</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">27</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">36143</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">1.13</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">47.62</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2407</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/08/2016</td><td align="right">1011.73</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3091582</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">50802</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3848929</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-757347</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">975</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">26689</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">102</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">25340</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.00</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">47.62</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">975</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/09/2016</td><td align="right">1013.53</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3133398</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">41816</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3837974</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-704576</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">1198</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">22287</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">22005</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.54</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">48.16</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">1198</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/10/2016</td><td align="right">1016.72</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3208462</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">75064</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3781911</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-573449</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">833</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">38684</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">40417</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">1.10</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">49.26</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">833</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/11/2016</td><td align="right">1021.02</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3311511</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">103049</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3688492</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-376982</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">560</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">52520</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">52760</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2.67</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">51.93</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">560</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/12/2016</td><td align="right">1025.86</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3429911</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">118400</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3577439</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">-147528</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">401</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">60093</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">59991</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">1.46</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">53.39</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">401</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/13/2016</td><td align="right">1031.92</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3582246</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">152335</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3423444</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">158802</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">551</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">77360</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">79428</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2.56</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">55.95</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">551</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/14/2016</td><td align="right">1036.82</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3708819</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">126573</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3306574</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">402246</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">445</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">64273</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">63988</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2.10</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">58.05</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">445</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/15/2016</td><td align="right">1040.02</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3793119</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">84300</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3252100</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">541019</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">1262</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">43965</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">202</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">44204</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.02</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">58.07</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">1262</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/16/2016</td><td align="right">1042.17</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3850207</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">57088</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3252100</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">598107</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">1882</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">30671</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">29955</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.00</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">58.07</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">1880</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/17/2016</td><td align="right">1043.84</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3894951</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">44744</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3252100</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">642851</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3097</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">25726</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">71</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">26882</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.00</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">58.07</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3097</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/18/2016</td><td align="right">1044.15</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3903296</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">8345</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3254664</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">651196</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">17515</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">21841</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">119</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">21177</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.00</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">58.07</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">17515</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/19/2016</td><td align="right">1044.25</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3905994</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">2698</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3280451</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">632005</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">17239</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">18734</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">135</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">17929</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.00</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">58.07</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">17239</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/20/2016</td><td align="right">1044.47</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3911930</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">5936</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3308446</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">610543</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">16888</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">19881</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">19791</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.01</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">58.08</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">16888</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/21/2016</td><td align="right">1044.90</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3923534</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">11604</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3328012</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">595522</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">17088</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">22946</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">23466</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.80</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">58.88</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">17088</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/22/2016</td><td align="right">1045.18</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3931113</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">7579</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3358086</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">573027</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">17034</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">21214</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">359</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">21305</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.90</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">59.78</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">17034</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/23/2016</td><td align="right">1045.46</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3938705</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">7592</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3405022</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">533684</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">14719</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">18659</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">112</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">18841</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.03</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">59.81</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">14719</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/24/2016</td><td align="right">1045.69</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3944941</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">6236</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">3447356</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">497584</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">13787</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">16987</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">56</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">16885</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0.00</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">59.81</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">13787</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td nowrap="">03/25/2016</td><td align="right">--</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">--</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">--</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">--</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">--</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">--</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">--</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">--</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">--</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">--</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">--</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">--</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">--</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td><td align="right">--</td><td align="right"><a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/flaglist.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></td></tr>
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<a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?SHA&d=24-Apr-2016+14:20&span=30days" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Later</a> | <a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?SHA&d=25-Mar-2016+14:20&span=30days" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Latest</a></div>
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Warning! This data is preliminary and subject to revision.</div>
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<a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecstation/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Show SHA Map</a> | <a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/plotDaily2?staid=SHA&end_date=25-Mar-2016+14:20" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Plot SHA Data</a> | <a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=SHA&d=25-Mar-2016+14:20&span=1month" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1 Month SHA Data</a> | <a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?s=SHA&d=25-Mar-2016+14:20" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Real-Time SHA Data</a> | <a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/stationInfo?station_id=SHA" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; font-size: 12.48px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SHA Info</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Precipitation at Mount Shasta since Christmas is well above average.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The period total of 27.6 inches is 44.4 percent above the normal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lake Oroville is the second largest reservoir in California. Its story and rapid recovery are similar to Lake Shasta's. Oroville is at 84 percent of total capacity, 113 percent of its daily average and 100 percent of its average yearly peak. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even smaller Sierra Nevada reservoirs like San Pedro (80 percent of normal, up from 70 percent on March 1, 59 percent on February 1, and 53 percent on January 1) that remain below normal, are sharply above last year's level and the historic 1976-77 lows, and are filling at a rates should bump up against -- and possibly exceed -- normal by the end of the wet season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These reservoirs will continue to fill because they will be recharged by the melting of the ample snowpack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Looking at smaller urban reservoirs in Northern California that supply city and suburban water systems, the news is excellent as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For example, in the Marin Municipal Water District, Marin County, north of San Francisco, the reservoirs are full.</span><br />
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<strong style="background-color: #f5f9f8; color: #3e5667; font-family: LatoLatin, 'Segoe UI', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Reservoir Storage</strong><span style="background-color: #f5f9f8; color: #3e5667; font-family: "latolatin" , "segoe ui" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"> (total capacity 79,566 acre-feet)</span><br />
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<tr class="telerik-reTableHeaderRow-2"><th class="auto-style20" style="border: 0px none; color: #fffffe; font-size: 1em; padding-left: 0px; width: 515px;"> Alpine, Bon Tempe, Kent, Lagunitas, Nicasio, Phoenix, & Soulajule Reservoirs</th><th class="telerik-reTableHeaderOddCol-2" style="border: 0px none; color: #fffffe; font-size: 1em; padding-left: 0px;">Acre-<br />
Feet<sup>3</sup> </th><th class="telerik-reTableHeaderEvenCol-2" style="border: 0px none; color: #fffffe; font-size: 1em; padding-left: 0px;">% of<br />
Capacity</th></tr>
<tr class="telerik-reTableEvenRow-2" style="background-color: #dbe8e6;"><td class="auto-style20" id="StorDate" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0.25em 2em 0.25em 0px; text-indent: 0.42em; width: 515px;">Storage as of 3/24/2016</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-2" id="Storage1" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0.25em 2em 0.25em 0px;">79,566</td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-2" id="PctStorCap" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0.25em 2em 0.25em 0px;">100.00%</td></tr>
<tr class="telerik-reTableOddRow-2 alt" style="background-color: #f5f9f8;"><td class="auto-style20" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0.25em 2em 0.25em 0px; width: 515px;"> Storage for this date last year</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-2" id="Storage4" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0.25em 2em 0.25em 0px;">76,020</td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-2" id="PrvYrPctCap" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0.25em 2em 0.25em 0px;">95.54%</td></tr>
<tr class="telerik-reTableEvenRow-2" style="background-color: #dbe8e6;"><td class="auto-style20" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0.25em 2em 0.25em 0px; width: 515px;"> Average storage for this date</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-2" id="Storage2" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0.25em 2em 0.25em 0px;">72,823</td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-2" id="HPctStorCap" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0.25em 2em 0.25em 0px;">91.53%</td></tr>
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Current storage (79,566 AF) is 109.25% of the average storage (72,823 AF) for this date.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Sonoma County Water Agency reports neighboring Sonoma County's reservoir water levels are above water supply targets. As indicated by the downward kinks in the below graphs, Sonoma water is being released to reserve capacity for flood control.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">South of San Francisco, the data for the Santa Clara Water District are more difficult to interpret, but after digging around, we find the news is positive all around as well. Four out of the eleven reservoirs are full and a fifth, Coyote now 89.8 percent. The district's largest reservoir, Anderson, is reportedly only 57.3 percent full based on its 90,373 acre feet capacity, but that is not actually so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the scoop on Anderson Reservoir.</span><br />
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Anderson Reservoir is currently limited to 68 percent of its capacity due to seismic concerns, costing Santa Clara County valuable drinking water resources. This project covers earthquake retrofitting of Anderson Dam to improve reliability and safety, and returns the reservoir to its original storage capacity.<br />
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Anderson Dam creates the county’s largest surface water reservoir—Anderson Reservoir—which stores local rainfall runoff and imported water from the Central Valley Project. The reservoir is an important water source for treatment plants and the recharge of the groundwater basin. Besides restoring drinking water supplies, the upgrade also supports compliance with environmental regulations. The district’s regular reservoir releases ensure that downstream habitat has healthy flows and temperatures to sustain wildlife.<br />
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A breach of Anderson Dam at full capacity could have catastrophic consequences, including inundation of surrounding land more than 30 miles northwest to San Francisco Bay, and more than 40 miles southeast to Monterey Bay.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The current capacity is actually 61,810 acre feet, meaning Anderson Reservoir is 83.3 percent full and will likely fill up to its practical capacity in April. Total storage for all Santa Clara reservoirs is then about 80 percent of capacity (instead of 65.3 percent).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When reservoir storages get up to 200 percent we will check back to see if Club Fed has called off the Drought Monitor. Cheers.</span><br />
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Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-22166543669063006622016-03-17T13:38:00.000-06:002016-03-17T15:08:54.479-06:00St. Patrick's Day Honoree: Great Grandfather William K. Foster (Repost)<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>William K. Foster</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>March 20, 1835 - September 27, 1902</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On this St. Patrick's Day 2015, we honor our pioneering great grandfather, William K. Foster, who 165 years ago (April 18, 1849) boarded the sailing vessel Bridgetown at New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Six weeks later, on June 1, 1849, William, his widowed mother, and four siblings, landed in Quebec and were thus freed from the throes of the <a href="http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/introduction.htm">Irish Potato Famine.</a> No doubt they were thankful to have made it safely to Canada for <a href="http://www.irishamericanjourney.com/2011/10/irish-ships-to-america.html">the trip was fraught with hazard</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Traveling to America by ship during the Irish Famine could be quite perilous. In the mid-19th century, English landlords looking to evict penniless Irish tenants would pay to have them shipped to British North America. In many cases these ships were poorly built, crowded, disease-ridden, and short of food, supplies and medical services. As a result, many Irish immigrants contracted diseases such as typhus, and many others died before reaching land. Of the 100,000 Irish that sailed to British North America in 1847, one out of five died from disease and malnutrition. Appropriately, these treacherous sailing vessels became known as “coffin ships.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On a voyage across the Atlantic in 1847, <a href="http://www.theshipslist.com/1847/">dozens aboard the Bridgetown succumbed to the fever (typhus) and were buried at sea</a>, leaving many orphans. A passenger wrote from island quarantine:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We arrived here on the 22<sup>nd</sup> from Liverpool. I regret to tell you that fever broke out, and that seventy passengers and one sailor were committed to the deep on the voyage. There are several more ill. We buried six yesterday on shore. The carpenter and joiner are occupied making coffins. There are six more dead after the night. I cannot say when we can go to Quebec, as we cannot land the remainder of the sick at present, there being no room in the hospitals for them, though the front of the island is literally covered with sheds and tents.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">The accounts from the shore are awful, and our condition on board you can form no idea of — helpless children without parents or relatives, the father buried in the deep last week, and the mother the week before, — their six children under similar unfortunate circumstances, and so on. I trust God will carry me through this trying ordeal — I was a few days sick, but am now recovered. Captain Wilson was complaining for a few days. It is an awful change from the joyous hopes with which most of us left our unfortunate country, expecting to be able to earn that livelihood denied us at home — all — all changed in many cases to bitter deep despair.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">The Bridgetown would be <a href="https://personal.uwaterloo.ca/marj/genealogy/reports/report1849_50.html">lost at sea off the coast of New Foundland</a> in August, 1850. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">[T]he ship "Bridgetown," from Liverpool, with 347 passengers, was wrecked on the coast of Newfoundland, near Cape Race, on the 4th of August. Excepting three children, the passengers were saved and conveyed to St. John's, whence three vessels arrived with them at this port, on the 10th of September. The passengers by the "Wave" and "Bridgetown," landed here in a very destitute state, having lost all their baggage, on which account they caused a heavy expenditure to the department. The outlay incurred at this and the Montreal agency, for their inland transport and provisions, was 152£ 5s., for which expense, owing to the loss of the vessels, no dues had been received.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">Having survived their voyage unscathed, the Foster family adventure in the New World began.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />Great great grandmother Margaret Roach Foster, an</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">d children Hariett, 24, James, 21, Elizabeth 18, William K., 14, and Isaac, 12, settled in Kemptville, Ontario, located thirty-five miles south of Ottawa. William came of age, apprenticed as and became a journeyman cabinet maker, a profession which included coffin making. He met Margaret Sanderson, daughter of Scottish immigrants. They married on May 3, 1859. She bore him five sons -- Isaac (my grandfather), George, William, James and Robert. Great grandmother Margaret died of complications from childbirth the week following Robert's birth. The widower William subsequently married Nancy Jane Loucks, who bore him a sixth child, Emily Rellia. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">William Foster headed yet further west in 1874, first to Pembina, Dakota territory. Pembina was the original county seat of Pembina county. It is tucked under the international border in the extreme northeast corner of North Dakota, seventy miles south of Winnepeg, Manitoba. In 1879, William moved on to his final place of residence, homesteading in Bathgate, Dakota territory, fifteen miles southwest of Pembina. William was an original -- literally the town father. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The founding of Bathgate is chronicled in "<a href="http://digitalhorizonsonline.org/cdm/ref/collection/ndsl-books/id/11300">Proudly We Speak, A History of Neche, Hyde Park, Bruce and Bathgate</a>."</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">In this 1893 plat William K. Foster owned a quarter section west of town, plus a<br />
145 acre plot south of town. He donated a triangular plot east of the railroad for the<br />
town cemetery, where he is interred. The town of Bathgate is located on land my<br />
great grandfather originally homesteaded. The quarter section north of town is held<br />
at that time by my grandfather Isaac (I. J.) Foster.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">William Foster, Sr. and his son "Ike" filed on the land which became the Bathgate townsite. There are several stories of how the town came to be called Bathgate. One taken from the diary of Mrs. John Houston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Campbell states that in July 1880 two men with a team of horses came to the Campbell home, the land now owned by the Thomas and James Martindale families and asked to stay over night. The men were Comstock and White of the Land Company of Comstock and White, who had purchased the land for a townsite from the Fosters. They went on to Winnipeg, locating townsites along the railroad. On their return,they again stayed over night and Mr. Comstock said that the townsite would be named Bathgate after the town in England, where his wife had lived.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A Mr. Ewing was hired to plot the town into lots, streets and avenues. The Railroad brought the Boom. People came, buildings sprang up, businesses were started and the town grew. The St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad was built from Grand Forks to Winnipeg. It reached Bathgate August 10,1882. Service began in September, the north train arriving in the morning and the south bound train in the late afternoon. In 1890, this railroad became the Great Northern with the well known Jim Hill as President of the Company. The first grain was shipped September 27, 1882. The telegraph came to Bathgate late in 1882.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">William K. was <a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2013/03/on-road-to-bathgate-act-5-founding-and.html">active in the town's development</a> far beyond his role in selling his original quarter section off to a developer. "Proudly We Speak" continues,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">William Foster was the first to build a home, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">it was built in the north end of town. He built the </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">building which housed the Post O</span><span style="font-size: large;">ffice. Mr. Foster was the first Postmaster.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He carried the mail horseback from Hamilton P.O., five miles south of Bathgate and two miles northwest of Hamilton to the Pembina-Cavalier Trail. He performed this service without pay for two years. William Foster was the town's promoter. Church services were held in his house. He donated land for the Cemetery. He and his sons promoted various business ventur</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">es.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">In additional to selling the land which was developed by Comstock and White, the Fosters retained land to the immediate north which was platted, subdivided and marketed </span><span style="font-size: large;">as Foster's Addition to Bathgate. William K. Foster avidly promoted the lots, the town and the territory of Dakota in general.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">For his efforts the editor of the local newspaper referred to William Foster as Mayor, an honorific, not legally conferred, title.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">William Foster said that Bathgate was "high and dry," not subject to the all too frequent devastating floods that occured a dozen miles east along the "overflowing Red."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The "Bathgate Sentinel" was quick to confirm the accuracy of advertisements promoting the town. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is not a word of exaggeration in the advertisements of our townsite proprietors Messrs. Comstock & White, and Mr. W. Foster. Located as Bathgate is on a beautiful river, almost in the centre of the rich, and wonderously fertile County of Pembina, and soon to become the great railroad centre, no town can offer better inducements to capital, energy and brains. Everybody sees the superior advantages Bathgate has over all other towns in the county, the beautiful high location; fourteen miles from the raging Red, that has caused so much damage along its banks; a great railroad centre, and a soil extending in every direction from ten to twenty miles that is unrivaled for richness and elevation.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">William K. Foster touted the special advantages of Foster's addition in ads placed in the "Pembina Pioneer Express."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">William Foster's enthusiasm never dimmed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We thank God for the pioneering spirit and drive of our ancestor William K. Foster, and honor him for that and his heritage today, St. Patricks Day 2015. Thanks to him the road has risen to meet us and the wind blows to this day behind our backs. Happy St. Patrick's day great grandfather!</span>Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-37651525610860862522016-03-16T16:13:00.001-06:002016-03-16T16:28:37.017-06:00Little League Baseball And Caddie Economics<span style="font-size: large;">Last summer in a <a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2015/07/morton-grove-little-league-all-stars.html">post that features</a> a team photo of myself with the Morton Grove 1966 Little League North Side All Stars I said,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We posted this just short of half-century old nostalgic photo on my personal Facebook page back in 2011. We were reminded of it the last few days when a couple of my childhood friends somehow ferreted it out from among my hundreds of pictures posted, and clicked the Like button. It occurred to me that some among the broader audience of current and former Morton Grove residents who read my blog might find the photo of interest. Now the pictured individuals will have an opportunity to turn up in search engine results.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">Sure enough, through the magic up the internet, I heard a couple of weeks back from a pictured teammate, Rich Kengott. Rich shared his copy of the team photo, which includes a contemporaneous caption identifying the players. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rich also sent a picture of the back side of the framed photo, which has my father's name and the address of the home I was raised in from 1953 to 1971.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to Dad for kindly distributing this framed piece of memorabilia to each of the players on the 1966 team.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can see now the earlier post erroneously identified the fellow holding the crossed bats as Rich Lauson. We know now that was Bob Warren. I will correct it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our ties went beyond baseball. Rich and I started caddying together at Glen View Club in September 1964. Each caddie was assigned a number. But that first fall we did not get our own number as we were kind of like late season baseball farm system call ups who had not earned a permanent job. We caddied on our brother's caddie numbers. I recollect my number was 118a and Rich's number was number "a" something or other too, caddying off of his brother Ray's number, if I recollect his older brother's name correctly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bless Rich for </span><span style="font-size: large;">keeping the caddie badges which issued with his numbers from six out of our first seven full years. I remember the first year his number was 147 and mine was 145, mine lower probably because my first loop was a few days earlier than his the previous fall. Each year thereafter, my number was one lower than Rich's because whoever had been assigned 146 in year one fell out of the program</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My numbers were 145 in 1965, 94 in 1966, 68 in 1967, 39 in 1968, 12 in 1970 and 10 in 1971. Rich's year 1969 badge is missing, but I recall I was something like number 19, which would have made him 20. If memory serves me right I was number 2 caddying weekends while working a factory job in 1972.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rich kept detailed records on caddie pay. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Here is some clarification on the caddie pay.</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">1966 caddie badge # 95 earned <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_271687879" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 5, 3.50</span></span> a bag and by <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_271687880" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Aug 9</span></span>, 4.75 a bag; </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">1967 caddie badge #69 earned <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_271687881" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 5</span></span>, 4.75 a bag and <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_271687882" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Aug 5, 9.50</span></span> doubles; </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">1968 caddie badge #40 earned <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_271687883" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 4, 9.50</span></span> doubles and <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_271687884" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 21</span></span> and the rest of the year 10.50 doubles; </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">1969 caddie badge #13? I think it was in the 20’s, earned <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_271687885" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 4, 10.50</span></span> doubles all year.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I remember taking the Skokie Swift down to the Howard Street L with Bob Casey to attend a Cubs game in 1967. Bob was kind of baby faced. He wanted to save 50 cents or whatever the fare difference was by paying the youth fare (age 12 and under). The CTA attendant asked what Bob's birthday was. He replied with a month and date late in the year. The attendant asked what year. Bob replied 1953. Bob paid the adult fare.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The $2.00 entries are for 9-hole loops. Back in the day we earned "winter" pay early and late in the year, which meant $4.00 (instead of $3.50) a bag for 18 holes and $2.00 (instead of $1.75) a bag for nine holes. Five of the nine dates in April were on weekends, two were on Fridays, and two were mid-week. We caddied after school when we could. The Catholic school kids were released earlier than us public school students and could parlay that into better after school earnings. Most of the caddies attended St. Martha's school in Morton Grove or Notre Dame High School in Niles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">By the end of the golf season Rich was carrying doubles most of the time and was earning $4.75 a bag for 18 holes. Rich's records definitively identify 1966 as the <a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-caddies-thank-you-dr-king.html">caddie strike year (check this link for the story of that three and one-half hour work stoppage</a>), indicated by the large (from $3.50 to $4.75 or 35 percent) increase in pay. For the year his earnings were $737.10 ($5,394.28 in 2016 dollars), not bad for a 13-year old kid in 1966. Spring, summer and fall of 1966, baseball and caddying, earning and saving money, finishing junior high and getting ready for high school -- it was a very busy and eventful time.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-53372072273222593502016-03-07T18:09:00.000-07:002016-03-08T08:45:48.308-07:00Glen View Club -- Focus on the First Quarter Century Part 2a: The Boy Scout Sculpture<span style="font-size: large;">Our post "<a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2015/04/glen-view-club-focus-on-first-quarter.html">Glen View Club -- Focus on the First Quarter Century Part I</a>" is among the most frequently viewed here at Along the Gradyent. When published we promised Part 2, having in mind that would be a comprehensive post to complete the reporting on most everything else of interest in the club's first quarter century. A bit later I followed u</span><span style="font-size: large;">p with "<a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2015/05/harms-woods-glen-view-club-and-north.html">Harms Woods, Glen View Club and the North Shore and Western Railway</a>" which published photos of remnants of the abandoned early 20th century trolley line that ferried members, caddies and employees of the club from Evanston out to Golf, Illinois. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is much ground to cover in Part 2 including the fiery destruction of the original clubhouse, the 1921 construction of the new (and current) clubhouse, vignettes on notable early members, stories of the inaugural Western Open and an early US Amateur and US Open held at the club, and reports on major championship winning members and club professionals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A</span><span style="font-size: large;">fter amassing a body of research I've decided to proceed with individual chapters -- much in the way that many books were serially published in the late 19th and into the turn of the 20th century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While American periodicals first syndicated British writers, over time they drew from a growing base of domestic authors. The rise of the periodicals like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper%27s_Magazine">Harper's</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Monthly">Atlantic Monthly</a> grew in symbiotic tandem with American literary talent. The magazines nurtured and provided an economic sustainability for writers, while the writers helped grow the periodicals' circulation base. During the late 19th century, those that were considered the best American writers first published their work in serial form and then only later in a completed volume format.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_(literature)#cite_note-8">[8]</a></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">As a piece in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribner%27s_Monthly">Scribner's Monthly</a> explained in 1878, "Now it is the second or third rate novelist who cannot get publication in a magazine, and is obliged to publish in a volume, and it is in the magazine that the best novelist always appears first."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_(literature)#cite_note-9">[9]</a> Among the American writers that wrote in serial form were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James">Henry James</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe">Harriet Beecher Stowe</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville">Herman Melville</a>. A large part of the appeal for writers at the time was the broad audiences that serialization could reach, which would then grow their following for published works.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">One of the first significant American works to be released in serial format is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin">Uncle Tom's Cabin</a>, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which was published over a 40-week period by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Era">The National Era</a>, an abolitionist periodical, starting with the June 5, 1851 issue.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">On July 4, 1919 Glen View Club welcomed to its grounds a notable piece of American art -- a rendering known as the Boy Scout sculpture (or fountain) by <a href="http://www.portraitsculptors.org/FeatureImg/Oconnor/Feature_AndrewOconnor.html">Andrew O'Connor Jr. (1874-1941)</a>. The statute was inserted and is located to this day in a sylvan setting between the clubhouse and the golf course pro shop. The sculptor, Mr. O'Connor, had been: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[b]orn i</span><span style="font-size: large;">n Worcester, Massachusetts, son of a sculptor of the same name of Irish descent. In London c.1894-8, met John Singer Sargent and assisted him on reliefs for the Boston Library decorations. On return to America, was commissioned through the sculptor Daniel Chester French to make bronze doors for St Bartholomew's church in New York. Settling in Paris in the early years of the 20th century, he exhibited annually at the Paris Salon where his work was influenced to some extent by Dalou and Rodin, then from 1914 to the mid 1920s in the USA, at Paxton, Massachusetts. First one-man exhibition at the Kunstsalon Walther Zimmermann, Munich, 1906. Received various commissions for funerary and public monuments mainly in the USA, including the monument to Lincoln at Springfield, Illinois, an equestrian statue of Lafayette at Baltimore and the Theodore Roosevelt memorial at Glen View, Chicago.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">The Boy Scout sculpture was commissioned and donated to Glen View Club by member Edwin S. Jackman (1865-1927). The artwork memorializes president Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) by honoring the late president's association with and contributions to the Boy Scout movement. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"YOUTH -- LIFE -- LIBERTY" are boldly inscripted thereon.</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Edwin S. Jackman is best known for another artwork donation -- <a href="http://www.journal-topics.com/lifestyles/article_7d97c6e8-8ba6-11e4-bcfa-bbd6a38d4838.html">the Bear Fountain at Jackman Park in the neighboring village of Glenview. That statue, also by Andrew O'Connor, has become the village's trademark</a>. </span><br />
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Glenview's original Bear Fountain was fashioned of concrete; the design included a large bear seated atop a pedestal containing images of woodland animals. Its animal theme reflected the Jackmans' devotion to creatures. Over the years, acid rain took its toll and a replica of the original was dedicated during the village's centennial in 1999.</div>
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<span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="fn" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">By DENISE FLEISCHER Lifestyle Editor</span></span></div>
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<span class="paragraph-1" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">It’s interesting to note that Jackman, a very wealthy entrepreneur man in the steel business, was not a resident of Glenview. He lived along the boundary of the village, in Golf.</span></div>
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His thoughtful contribution, a three-level fountain with a very popular bear, actually became the village’s trademark.</div>
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According to Bev Dawson, Glenview History Center librarian, Jackman was born in East Liverpool, OH in 1865 and had siblings. His family moved to Pennsylvania when Edwin was six.</div>
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“Edwin attended Western University, which is now the University of Pittsburgh,” Dawson said. “His first job was in a telegraph office in 1882.”</div>
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His abilities were quickly recognized and he was offered a job with Park Brothers and Company Limited. A very adept salesman, he became the agent for the Firth-Sterling steel company.</div>
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“He established his own company, E.S. Jackman and Company, with headquarters in Chicago, selling steel with a national scope,” Dawson said. “He did business from Pittsburgh to the Pacific coast.”</div>
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Dawson said Jackman’s brother, David, was the treasurer of the Pittsburgh office.</div>
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Jackman and his wife, Harriet, were childless, but the love and wisdom he would have provided his own children, he gave to his nephews. Dawson said that the Glenview History Center actually has Jackman’s letters to his nephews in its archives.</div>
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The Jackmans called their home “The Farm.” Perhaps this was because they both loved animals – wildlife and cocker spaniels.</div>
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As his fortune grew, Jackman wanted to give back to the local community.</div>
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“He donated the Bear Fountain to Glenview in 1917,” Dawson said. “At the pedestal (there) is all manner of wild animals. The fountain has three levels: the top for people, the trough for horses and the bottom for dogs and cats. The fountain because Glenview’s trademark.”</div>
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Two years later Jackman donated the bronze Boy Scout Fountain, which is on the grounds of the Glen View Club, a country club on Golf Road, between Harms and Waukegan. Andrew O’Connor created both sculptures.</div>
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Jackman died in 1927, at the age of 62, while on vacation in Santa Barbara, CA. His contributions have been admired for generations.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The bear statue <a href="http://local.townsquarepublications.com/illinois/glenview/">symbolizes the generosity</a> of the community.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;">Glenview is home to people who band together in a number of community groups and organizations to help their fellow citizens. Their philosophy “Hug the Bear” began in 1917 during the early stages of Glenview’s history when Ed Jackman bestowed upon the people a fountain with a bear at the top. The bear serves as the village’s mascot and since that time has stood for giving back to the community. To “Hug the Bear” means in an analogical sense to “hug” the community. The loyal and compassionate people of Glenview make a joint effort to continue the tradition established a century ago that has served them so well.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Edwin S. Jackman was sales agent for the Firth Sterling Steel Company. He was proud to have "been selling steel to railroads since his twentieth birthday." Salesman to the core, Mr. Jackman celebrated his fiftieth birthday "with a tribute to American railroads and the men who run them." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A railroad is not the unfeeling and relentless devourer of automobiles and little children at grade crossings described by impassioned advocates in crowded courtrooms. The whistle of danger is an engineer's use of a piece of machinery, but it is also the echo of a man's thought for his own babies left at home.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">A railroad has been likened to an octopus by those who do not know the flesh and blood and personality of railroads. The soul of a railroad is fidelity, and if a railroad is an octopus, it is an octopus with a soul.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">A railroad is a disciplined power; owning rails and cars and locomotives; engaging in the highest quality of a mechanical skill and expert knowledge; but the glory of a railroad is the united adjustment of its living nerves to patience, courage, courtesy, speed and safety.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">The man emoted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Firth Sterling manufactured steel tools and dies, and ammunition jackets and casings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Firth Sterling once had a munitions plant in Washington DC, on the southern bank of the Anacostia River at its junction with the Potomac where Bolling Air Force Base (home of the presidential Marine One helicopter fleet) is now located.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Note the artillery shells being turned on huge iron lathes in the middle and bottom photos in the Washington Times article. The steel company lives on in the form of its eponymous access road, Firth Sterling Avenue, which skirts the west campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital. St. Elizabeths houses John Hinckley who has been 34-years resident in the mental institution since being found not guilty of attempting to assassinate President Ronald Wilson Reagan by reason of insanity.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">First Sterling was the first American stainless steel producer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>PRESIDENT TEDDY ROOSEVELT, BOY SCOUT SUPPORTER</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Teddy Roosevelt surged into the national consciousness when he led the legendary "Rough Riders" United States Army cavalry regiment during the Spanish American war. Roosevelt's unit was decorated for its courageous fighting in winning the Battle of San Juan Hill in 1898. Theodore Roosevelt was elected Vice President in 1900. He ascended to the presidency in September 1901 when President William McKinley was assassinated. Roosevelt was elected to a full four-year term in 1904.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Roosevelt put his considerable weight behind the Boy Scouts of America when it was formed in 1910. He lauded the Boy Scouts for molding resourceful, kind and brave young men who could serve in support and defense of family, country and the cause of freedom, much like his Rough Riders.</span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Theodore Roosevelt was a guiding figure in the early years of the Boy Scout Movement in the United States. A former president, proponent of training young men for service to their nation and their community, and proponent of the "strenuous life", Roosevelt thought that the Boy Scouts of America would answer the need for guiding boys to manhood. He was the first commissioner of the Nassau County Council, and was declared Chief Scout Citizen in 1911.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Roosevelt lauded the movement's virtues.</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“More and more I have grown to believe in the Boy Scout movement. I regard it as one of the movements most full of promise for the future here in America. The Boy Scout movement is distinctly an asset to our country for the development of efficiency, virility, and good citizenship. It is essential that its leaders be men of strong, wholesome character; of unmistakable devotion to our country, its customs and ideals, as well as in soul and by law citizens thereof, whose wholehearted loyalty is given to this nation, and to this nation alone.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #464646; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22.2222px;">In December, 1913 Teddy Roosevelt wrote a pep talk for the Boy Scouts for publication in its house organ, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YoqD4Qgj5QcC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=Indeed+I+go+a+little+further.+I+wish+that+I+could+make+the+special+appeal+to+the+American+boy+to+remember+that+unless+he+thinks+of+others&source=bl&ots=je4vrmfiNY&sig=K3FBemuBi2_OBP4kVJQKw2nvUNw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjw3-qd0ZnLAhUY1mMKHfu0BLMQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false">Boys Life Magazine</a>. He</span><span style="color: #464646; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22.2222px;"> called on Scouts to be unselfish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Indeed I go a little further. I wish that I could make the special appeal to the American boy to remember that unless he thinks of others he cannot fit himself to do the best work in any great emergency.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Roosevelt completed his message with a challenge to the scouts that surely would be marginalized and criticized in today's culture of political correctness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What was true on a very small scale in my regiment is true on a very big scale of American citizenship as a whole. The boy is not worth anything if he is not efficient. I have no use for mollycoddles, I have no use for timid boys, for the "sissy" type of boy. I want to see a boy able to hold his own and ashamed to flinch. But as one element of this ability to hold his own, I wish to see him contemptuously indifferent to the mean or brutal boy who calls him "sissy" or a mollycoddle because he is clean and decent and considerate to others. If a boy is not fearless and energetic, he is a poor creature; but he is an even poorer creature if he is a bully of smaller boys or girls, if he is guilty of cruel mischief, and if in his own home, and especially in relationships with his own mother and sisters, he is selfish and unfeeling.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Glen View Club's Boy Scout sculpture was featured in the cover story of the March 25, 1920 Scouting Magazine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The magazine reported Mr. Jackman's sculpture dedication speech. Jackman honored those who gave the ultimate sacrifice of life and limb to serve the cause of country and freedom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today we meet to behold in a beautiful symbol of YOUTH-LIFE-LIBERTY the sympathetic purpose and the exalted genius of Andrew O' Connor.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nature gives through co-operation, and man belongs to nature. The sun alone can give no gardens; the rain alone can give no harvest; the soil alone can give no trees, no grass, no bushes. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Man is given a brain that penetrates the universe; an imagination that is boundless; a heart, generous and good; but at the door of perfect peace and happiness man knock in vain!</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An Infinite Intelligence has ordained that this perfect gift is for the few, for </span><span style="font-size: large;">those who have made a complete and total sacrifice, holding back nothing for themselves.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The perfect gift is given to the soldier who, with his last breath, defies the foe of liberty; it is given to the surgeon who gives himself that others may live; it is given to the nurse who drops at the shot into her open grave.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Boy Scouts of America, you are fortunate in your friends. President Wilson is your friend; Mr. Harrison B. Riley is your friend; President Henneberry and Dr. Stewart are your friends; Mr. Roche and Mr. O'Connor are your friends; Mr. Hibbard and all of the members of the Glen View Club are your friends.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Men and Women of Glen View Club, take these O'Connor scouts into your friendship and affection. As time rolls on they will speak to you of that country whence they came; the country of long days and precious memories!</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O Country of Youth! how sweet and trite and beautiful you are!</span> </blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">The Scouting Magazine article also quoted from a newspaper report on the sculpture's artistic merit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Mr. O'Connor's idea of design appropriately kept within the realm of the present time. The four boys, just four such boys as any club man of Glen View might see along the road or find among the caddies were modeled from the sons of the sculptor. The Boy Scouts do not hark to Greece or Rome or the native Indian, being entirely of the twentieth century and with aims of boy nobility that must lead to an American knighthood of the people far and wide. Remembering these things, it would be difficult, and certainly artificial and remote from the truth, to imagine some other design symbolic and formal while of classic origina. If American art is to be truly American with a distinct quality of its own, it must deal with the present and be independent. And so Mr. O'Connor's group meets the understanding of the man who passes by and the caddies lying on the grass as sculpture born of a modern era and of contemporary life." </span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Glen View Club member and treasurer, and Bell Telephone executive, <a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2015/03/hello-goodbye-at.html">Angus Hibbard</a>, was singled out in Edwin Jackman's dedication speech because Mr. Hibbard was volunteer and major fundraiser for the Boy Scout movement. He served as chairman of the Camp Roosevelt Association which was the fundraising and financial management arm of the organization. Camp Roosevelt was operated as a joint venture of the United States Army, the Chicago Board of Education and the Boy Scouts to train boys -- a builder of boys it was said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As much as Mr. Hibbard was in agreement with Edwin Jackman in admiration and support of the Boy Scout movement, Angus Hibbard probably had a different view of the railroads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can see from the front view below why the sculpture was sometimes referenced as the Boy Scout fountain. There was indeed a pedestal fountain at the fore that emptied into a shallow reflecting pool.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Scouting Magazine,</i> April 8, 1920, Tenth Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America, p. 17</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Scouting Magazine said scouting was "inspiring artists, writers and sculptors to put into permanent form their conceptions of the idealism and practical service of this movement."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Boy Scout sculpture was also featured on the cover of the American Magazine of Art.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The American Magazine of Art</i>, Volume XI, November 1919 - December 1920.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An inside photo showed the fountain in its original landscape setting.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">The American Magazine of Art</i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">, Volume XI, November 1919 - December 1920, p. 33.</span></td></tr>
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leaf filled reservoir<br />
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<a href="http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=SAAM-S87580074_4" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'arial unicode ms', 'lucida sans unicode', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" border="0" src="http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=SAAM-S87580074_4&max=150" style="cursor: move;" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">These early photos</span><span style="font-size: large;"> clearly show the shallow pool framing and a small fountain fronting the sculpture, yielding a cool, calm and reflective image on hot summer days. I recall in the 1960s during my caddie days that the pool filled frequently with wind-blown leaves, grass cuttings and other organic detritus. When Glen View club rehabbed the sculpture and redesigned the setting about ten years back, the pool and fountain were eliminated in favor of a paved patio, with informal seating arrangements (below). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We finish Part 2a with this description of the sculpture by Arts and Decoration Magazine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Through the generosity of Edwin S. Jackman, the Glen View Golf Club, Chicago Ill., has enjoyed the privilege of having ever before its members a distinguished example executed by O'Connor, one conceived in the spirit of Americanism and inspired by the memory of Theodore Roosevelt. This Statue, "Boy Scouts of America," a symbol of youth, represents four boys with their dog standing naturally on a large pedestal at the head of a pool. The four boys with their dog standing naturally on a large pedestal at the head of a pool. The four boys, just four real boys, such as we see on all the roads and find among our caddies of the field, were model from the sons of the sculptor.</span></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Arts and Decoration Magazine</i>, Volume XII, February 20, 1920.</td></tr>
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<strong>Long Description:</strong><br />
From the Smithsonian Arts Inventory at website below:<br />
Sculpture: approx. 5 x 5 x 3 ft.; Base: approx. 4 x 6 x 4 ft.; Fountain: approx H. 5 ft.; Diam. 3 ft.<br />
Inscription: (On proper left, integral base:) O'CONNOR (On proper left front edge of integral base:) RUDER (On front of base:) YOUTH LIFE LIBERTY/THE GIFT OF A CHERISHED MEMEBER/EDWIN STANTON JACKMAN/APRIL 11, 1865-MAY 30, 1927 signed Founder's mark appears.<br />
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Commissioned by Edwin S. Jackman, a Glen View Club member at the time of Roosevelt's death in 1919. The models for the four boys were the sculptor's sons, from left to right: Patrick, Owen, Hector, and Roderick, and their pug dog.<br />
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ARTIST(S): O'Connor, Andrew, Jr., 1874-1941, sculptor. Ruder, founder.<br />
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"Rather than memorialize Roosevelt with a formal portrait of him, the sculptor chose to also commemorate the Boy Scouts of America, an organization that Roosevelt had close ties to."<br />
The book also contains add'n biographical info on the sculptor, whose best known work in Illinois is a portrait of Lincoln giving his farewell address to the people of Springfield in the state's capitol.<br />
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The piece is aka "The Boy Scout Fountain." The area in front of the statue is now a seating area enclosed in a circular ring, which must have been a fountain at one time. In fact I just noticed that Google Maps still shows a fountain there, so this change must have been recent.<br />
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The sculpture is located in the members-only Glen View Club - see: (<a href="http://www.glenviewclub.com/club/scripts/home/home.asp" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">visit link</a>)<br />
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Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-52707066542600567282016-03-03T09:10:00.000-07:002016-03-04T08:43:54.448-07:00Voting to Feather the Nest<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.clrsearch.com/Demographic?state_id=67706&city_id=55362&place=Arlington%2c+VA&state=Virginia&chart=householdincome" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://www.clrsearch.com/Demographic?state_id=67706&city_id=55362&place=Arlington%2c+VA&state=Virginia&chart=householdincome" height="400" width="280" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back at my old residence in the People's Republic of Arlington Virginia, home of lobbyists, government contractors and high level (six-figure salary) government officials, the electorate is as self interested as you will find anywhere. Here is how Arlington voted on Super Tuesday. The cynical and self-centered insiders say anyone but Don, anyone but Ted -- and forget about that black dude.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Hillary Clinton 25,561<br />Bernie Sanders 12,541<br />Marco Rubio 10,944<br />John Kasich 4,971<br />Donald Trump 3,698<br />Ted Cruz 1,734<br />Ben Carson 381<br /><br /><br />Let's keep Arlington number one, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_locations_by_per_capita_income">in family income</a> that is. Vote Democrat. Elect Hillary!!!</span><br />
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Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-84678599566560660012016-02-26T17:12:00.000-07:002016-02-26T19:41:11.216-07:00Ditching Michelle Obama Leads to Boom<span style="font-size: large;">At Bozeman High School's cafeteria that is. The school system's food service ditched the cardboard for all diet dictated by Michelle (which her kids are not subjected to at elite Sidwell Friends school in Northwest DC) via the federal food lunch program, and is bringing in revenues to make up for the lost subsidy. The Bozeman Chronicle <a href="http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/education/bozeman-schools-food-sales-are-on-the-rise/article_111327de-2af3-5546-9a02-dc654d9b87e1.html">reports</a>:</span><br />
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Food sales are up at the Bozeman School District’s food service, which has struggled financially since the federal government got stricter about healthier foods.</blockquote>
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Total revenues last fall semester increased nearly $50,000, compared to the previous fall, Bob Burrows said Thursday.</blockquote>
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And that’s with no price increase for the third year in a row, said Burrows, who supervises the school district’s food service and 45 employees. He gave the Bozeman School Board an update this week.</blockquote>
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“Traffic is up, revenue is up,” Burrows said. “It’s great.”</blockquote>
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Bozeman High’s two cafeterias averaged 1,600 customers a day this fall, compared to 800 to 1,000 the year before, he said.</blockquote>
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Last summer the School Board agreed in a rare split vote, 5-3, to let Bozeman High School <a href="http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/education/drop-out-bozeman-high-weighs-leaving-federal-lunch-program/article_184cf2ac-d431-55dc-bd77-fc34044e00c1.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4175aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/education/drop-out-bozeman-high-weighs-leaving-federal-lunch-program/article_184cf2ac-d431-55dc-bd77-fc34044e00c1.html">drop out of the National School Lunch Program</a>, while leaving the elementary and middle schools in it.<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.1818px;"> </span></blockquote>
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The high school cafeteria was losing customers, which Burrows blamed on the Obama administration’s Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act, which seeks to combat an epidemic of childhood obesity by placing strict limits on fat, salt and calories.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">Almost double the customers in the high school's cafeteria? Everyone is happy except the for the proprietors of the local McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King nearby on Main Street, as many kids are now staying in school to eat nutritious and delicious meals. The Obamas are still meddling in my middle school child's life. They can't leave the White House soon enough.</span></div>
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Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-86384858377232995482016-02-21T16:44:00.000-07:002016-02-21T16:44:56.577-07:00What's in a Name?<span style="font-size: large;">So Bubba Watson won the Glenn Campbell Los Angeles Open, uh, er, I mean the Northern Trust Open today. Way to go Bubba!<br /><br />The PGA Tour is finishing a swing that headed down, up and then back down the California coast this last month (with a detour to Arizona), finishing at Riviera Country Club in LaLa land for the Northern Trust Open. The tournament's title and sponsorship are contracted and paid for by the eponymous international financial services company. Northern Trust provides private banking, investment banking and wealth management services. Its customers don't get a free toaster with a new checking account, but many do get access to a <a href="https://www.northerntrustopen.com/hospitality/executive-box-seats">catered suite with </a><a href="https://www.northerntrustopen.com/hospitality/executive-box-seats">bar</a><a href="https://www.northerntrustopen.com/hospitality/executive-box-seats"> overlooking the eighteenth green</a>.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Times change. So do names. A few weeks back, when I tuned into the Farmers Insurance Open broadcast on the Golf Channel, I thought oh yeah, the Andy Williams San Diego Open. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last week the PGA tour's traveling road show moved up the the coast to the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am, which once was the Bing Crosby National Pro-Amateur. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The dropped tournament names harken back to a time when most early season PGA Tour events generated exposure and borrowed cachet by trading on the name, likeness, and talent of well known celebrities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Andy Williams was best known for his signature song, Moon River.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Williams jumped on to the sponsorship carousel when Tour events seeking promotional appeal and new revenue streams began taking on names that identified more than place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The San Diego Open was founded in 1952, but hop-scotched around southern California for its first 16 years, never really finding a home. Williams came aboard in 1968 -- the same year that the tournament moved to Torrey Pines, and the combination of celebrity clout and first-class venue proved to be a real game-changer. The event has remained at Torrey ever since, and become one of the most successful on the PGA Tour – and no doubt that success helped to pave the way for Torrey to be awarded the 2008 U.S. Open, won by Tiger Woods in his memorable 18-hole playoff over Rocco Mediate.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Often there was a pro-am component to the celebrity named tour events. Celebrity pals, as well as accomplished athletes and notable politicians participated. Their star power drew attention and status, drove attendance, and attracted advertising and sponsorship dollars. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The granddaddy of them all was the Bing Crosby Pro-Amateur held in January/February on three courses on the Monterey Peninsula (in the oft-quoted words of Robert Louis Stevenson, "the most felicitous meeting of land and sea in existence."). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Crosby always had the Hollywood A-list stars like </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lemmon" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #003366; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jack Lemon</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">,</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Martin" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #003366; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Dean Martin</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">, Clint </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Eastwood" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #003366; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Eastwood</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">, </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000056/" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #003366; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul Newman</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nicholson" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #003366; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jack Nicholson,</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"> and recent stars like </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000195/" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #003366; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bill Murray</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Frey" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #003366; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Glenn Frey</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">, </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000126/" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #003366; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kevin Costner,</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Young" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #003366; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Steve Young</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lopez" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #003366; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">George Lopez</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brady" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #003366; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom Brady</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Romo" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #003366; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tony Romo </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_Daly" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #003366; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Carson Daly</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"> all make the trip to Pebble beach for the Clambake.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">In recent years you can add Justin Timberlake, Alice Cooper, Kenny G, Condoleezza Rice, Ray Romano, Larry The Cable Guy and Wayne Gretzky to that list.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The tournament's picturesque finishing 18th hole (shown above in the 1960 Bing Crosy Pro-Am) is at Pebble Beach Golf Links on Monterey Bay.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">President Gerald Ford, Arnold Palmer, Hale Irwin, Jonny Miller, Glen Campbell -- oh yes, Jack Nicklaus too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Other celebrity sponsored tournaments included the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic (now the FedEx St. Jude Classic), the Bob Hope Desert Classic (now the CareerBuilder Challenge), the Glen Campbell Los Angeles Open (now the Northern Trust Open), the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic (now the Honda Classic), the Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford Open (now the Travelers Championship), and, most recently, the Justin Timberlake Shriner Hospitals for Children Open (now the Shriner Hospitals for Children Open). Corporate sponsorship and its massive influx of dollars in the Tiger Woods era has crowded out celebrity naming rights on the PGA Tour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are clips from some of the oldies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">A major on the women's tour, now known as the ANA Inspiration, was hosted by Dinah Shore for almost three decades and was variously known as:</span><br />
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1972–80: Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1981: Colgate-Dinah Shore</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1982: Nabisco Dinah Shore Invitational</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1983–99: Nabisco Dinah Shore</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jamie Farr awarding winner's check, 2012.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jamie Farr, aka Corporal Klinger on M*A*S*H, hosted <a href="http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golftalkcentral/jamie-farr-ends-28-year-run-host-lpga-event/">the LPGA event in Toledo for 28 years</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With most tour events now completely corporatized I am reminded of one the first tournaments to go by a corporate name, the now defunct Kemper Open. For a number of years the Kemper Open was conducted in the Washington, DC area, first at Congressional Country Club then at TPC Avenel, just up Persimmon Tree Road. I remember in the early 1980s when Fred Couples won his first tournament -- the Kemper at Congressional. I remember his wife about jumped his bones on the 18th green after he sank the winning putt.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Gadsden Times, June 6, 1983</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its corporate lineage notwithstanding, for me the Kemper Open had a personal connection, because James S. Kemper President and Chairman of the Board of Kemper insurance, was a member at Glen View Club where I caddied. Kemper lived for the season in one of the "cottages" off the left side of the first hole. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found this news item that validate's Mr. Kemper's membership.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "courier" , "monotype"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">"THE VALENTINE Party that Pooped!" is the title of a poem by Joan and Jim Kemper which has been sent to those they invited to a Valentine dinner- dance at the Glen View Club Feb. 13. More than half of their guests would be away, the Kempers learned, and wrote: "Our plans collapsed, our spirits drooped-Quite obviously our party. pooped!/Oh, what to do? What should we do?/We'll plan another 'do' for you/And hope and pray/It'll be as gay /As the one we canceled for Valentine's Day/Because our friends will be away."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "courier" , "monotype"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "courier" , "monotype"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Chicago Tribune Feb. 2, 1971</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">James Kemper was inducted into the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame.</span><br />
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James Kemper</h1>
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The passion Jim Kemper exhibited for golf extended far beyond normal boundaries. He was best known as the man who gave daily-fee players the highly-regarded Kemper Lakes Golf Course in Hawthorne Woods, but professional golf benefited from his company's sponsorship of the Kemper Open on both the PGA and LPGA tours. Kemper Lakes played gracious host to the 1989 PGA Championship, the Illinois PGA Championship for 24 years, as well as senior events, two USGA championships and five editions of the Grand Slam of Golf. An ardent philanthropist, Kemper was given the 1987 Card Walker Award for his dedication to inner-city golf through his involvement with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Kemper was long an advocate of bringing the game - and the many lessons the game can teach - to underprivileged children in the inner city.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like his tournament, Mr. Kemper is with us no more.</span><br />
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James S. Kemper Jr., 88</h1>
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Leader of insurance giant championed alcohol rehab</h2>
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July 05, 2002 | By James Janega, Tribune staff reporter.<br />
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James S. Kemper Jr., 88, former head of Kemper Insurance Cos. and a recovered alcoholic who became a pioneer in national alcoholism rehabilitation programs, died Tuesday, July 2, in his vacation <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-07-05/news/0207050020_1_kemper-insurance-cos-mr-kemper-kemper-sports-management#">home</a> in Pauma Valley, Calif. He had been recovering from a heart attack suffered a few weeks ago, said Linda Kingman, a spokeswoman for the insurance company.<br />
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During his 10 years as chairman and chief executive of Kemper Insurance beginning in 1969--and continuing while chairman of Kemper's major entities until 1986--he created an employee assistance program for substance abuse that became a national model.<br />
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"The most expensive way to handle alcoholics is to fire or ignore them," he later told an Internet substance-abuse treatment site. "The most profitable and effective way is to help them recover."<br />
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President Jimmy Carter named him to the National Commission on Alcoholism and Other Related Problems in the late 1970s, and President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving. He was later chairman of the board of trustees of the National Commission Against Drunk Driving.<br />
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During his tenure at Kemper Insurance, the corporation expanded into both insurance and <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-07-05/news/0207050020_1_kemper-insurance-cos-mr-kemper-kemper-sports-management#">financial services</a>. The organization moved from property-casualty insurance into life insurance, reinsurance and financial securities in the 1970s, and embarked on a buying spree of regional property-casualty insurance companies.<br />
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Born in Chicago two years after his father founded the mutual insurance company, Mr. Kemper held a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a law degree from Harvard University.<br />
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He was a naval intelligence officer in the Pacific theater during World War II. Before joining his father's company in 1960, he practiced law in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.<br />
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Mr. Kemper transformed the family company into a major services group in 1967 with the formation of the publicly held Kemper Corp. The corporation was sold to Zurich Insurance Group in 1996.<br />
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Active in Republican politics throughout his professional life, Mr. Kemper was a delegate to several GOP conventions and encouraged others in the <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-07-05/news/0207050020_1_kemper-insurance-cos-mr-kemper-kemper-sports-management#">business</a> community to be active in governmental affairs.<br />
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He also was an avid golfer, an avocation that led him to use the sport as a promotional vehicle for Kemper Insurance through events like the PGA tour's Kemper Insurance Open, which began in 1968, as well as the former Women's Kemper Open on the LPGA tour. Mr. Kemper was elected to the advisory board of the Professional Golfers' Association, and continued after retirement<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEi4weslIavDZLhe_e7q53nOs5MXZK3j0_gyMAgkmK2Oz2TKIaGlXXx3_UbCiy7Iic-7MSR8je1fVUqnufjrR_NJNu4N0gG6TIQf2FF0YsIHks87xfR1HEH_yU5lTfqLt5ztKLXK8Fhtn53nAPqvMW5zouc=" /> as chairman of Kemper Sports Management Inc., which manages Kemper Lakes Golf Course in Long Grove.<br />
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Mr. Kemper is survived by his wife, Joan; three sons, James S. III, Stephen and Robert; two daughters, Linda Fair and Judith Lewis; two stepdaughters, Christina Gidwitz and Jan Fotre; a stepson, Dr. Terry Fotre; two sisters, Mildred Terrill and Rosemary Thomas; 11 grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.<br />
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A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. July 23 in the Fourth Presbyterian Church, 126 E. Chestnut St., Chicago.</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">Anyhow, I am just rambling. Cheers, until the next.</span>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrK2W9Je_HdnHf48YyRJ3zddUkewmmffcYXubiVr6pqzoGsV_vNTw_6Vj3gtp9PF9dseZydMi-H5JJ86eUIKZDuafTCewAy73KR-Z9qc24Md19xlDrGcBpc4dXT9PizT1gPbQc85Hr_b0/s1600/sanderstuition.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrK2W9Je_HdnHf48YyRJ3zddUkewmmffcYXubiVr6pqzoGsV_vNTw_6Vj3gtp9PF9dseZydMi-H5JJ86eUIKZDuafTCewAy73KR-Z9qc24Md19xlDrGcBpc4dXT9PizT1gPbQc85Hr_b0/s400/sanderstuition.png" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Most public university students could earn their tuition and then some by working a summer job. By continuing to work part time during the school year, with a modicum of help from parents or other relatives, many students managed to graduate entirely debt free. In-state students who did borrow had post graduation monthly re-payment schedules that were on the order of a car note or Con Ed bills -- not the condo or house size repayment burdens that many students carry today. Fueled largely by the free and easy availability of debt, the costs of attending college have skyrocketed over the years, much more so in some places than others. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bernie Sanders' response to this chain of events is to declare college should be free for all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, let's see how Bernie and his bleeding heart socialist pals from Vermont actually perform on controlling college costs, compared to, let's say, a collection of rugged individualists here in Montana.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">According to the <a href="https://www.uvm.edu/~stdfinsv/?Page=fabudgets.html">university's website</a>, the typical on campus state resident at the University of Vermont has an annual budget of $31,000. That is 4.4 percent percent higher than last year when Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy for President, a timeframe when consumer prices in general have actually declined. Way to go Bernie and friends in Vermont!</span><br />
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2015-2016 Undergraduate Student Financial Aid Budgets</h4>
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For students enrolled in 12-18 credits per semester.</div>
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<tr><th style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); color: #9ab600; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"></th><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><strong>Vermont Resident,<br />On Campus</strong></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><strong>Vermont Resident,<br />Off Campus</strong></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><strong>Vermont Resident,<br />At Home</strong></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><strong>Out-of-State Resident,<br />On Campus</strong></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><strong>Out-of-State Resident,<br />Off Campus</strong></td></tr>
<tr><th style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); color: #9ab600; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Tuition</th><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$14,664</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$14,664</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$14,664</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$37,056</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$37,056</td></tr>
<tr><th style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); color: #9ab600; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Student Fees</th><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$2,104**</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$2,074</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$2,074</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$2,104**</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$2,074</td></tr>
<tr><th style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); color: #9ab600; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Average Loan Fees</th><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$82</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$82</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$82</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$82</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$82</td></tr>
<tr><th style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); color: #9ab600; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Books & Supplies</th><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$1,200</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$1,200</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$1,200</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$1,200</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$1,200</td></tr>
<tr><th style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); color: #9ab600; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Room*</th><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$7,376</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$7,400</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$2,500</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$7,376</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$7,400</td></tr>
<tr><th style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); color: #9ab600; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Meals*</th><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$3,774</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$2,500</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$830</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$3,774</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$2,500</td></tr>
<tr><th style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); color: #9ab600; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Transportation</th><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$200</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$646</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$2,358</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$672</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$1,118</td></tr>
<tr><th style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); color: #9ab600; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Miscellaneous</th><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$1,600</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$1,600</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$1,906</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$1,600</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;">$1,600</td></tr>
<tr><th style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); color: #9ab600; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Total</th><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><strong>$31,000</strong></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><strong>$30,166</strong></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><strong>$25,614</strong></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><strong>$53,864</strong></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><strong>$53,030</strong></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Compare the Vermont costs to the <a href="http://catalog.montana.edu/expenses/">costs of attending Montana State University</a> here in Bozeman (University of Montana and Montana Tech costs are similar). </span><br />
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2015/2016 Montana State University Undergraduate Cost of Attendance</h3>
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Undergraduate Resident Students</h3>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="sc_sctable tbl_expensescostestimates" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.75em; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 652px;" summary="Expenses-Cost of Attendance"><colgroup><col class="column0"></col><col class="column1" style="text-align: right;"></col><col class="column2" style="text-align: right;"></col></colgroup><thead style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<tr class="even firstrow" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column0" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">Tuition/Fees<sup style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1</sup></td><td class="column1" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0.75em; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$3,425</td><td class="column2" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0.75em; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$6,850</td></tr>
<tr class="odd" style="background: rgb(247, 247, 247); border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column0" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">Room/Board<sup style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2</sup></td><td class="column1" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0.75em; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$4,325</td><td class="column2" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0.75em; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$8,650</td></tr>
<tr class="even" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column0" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">Books/Supplies<sup style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3</sup></td><td class="column1" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0.75em; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$625</td><td class="column2" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0.75em; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$1,250</td></tr>
<tr class="odd" style="background: rgb(247, 247, 247); border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column0" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">Personal/Transportation<sup style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4</sup></td><td class="column1" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0.75em; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"></td><td class="column2" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0.75em; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"></td></tr>
<tr class="even lastrow" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column0" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">Total</td><td class="column1" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0.75em; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$8,375</td><td class="column2" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0.75em; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$16,750</td></tr>
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Undergraduate Non-Resident Students</h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Note that the non-resident costs at MSU are virtually the same as the in-state resident costs at the University of Vermont. Seeing as the skiing out here is so much better and affordable, it's no wonder you can't walk or drive through MSU's campus without noticing a surprising large number of Vermont license plates. I can imagine the dinner table conversation, "Mom, dad, let me go to Montana it won't cost hardly a penny more." FYI, Montana State makes a small profit on out-of-state tuition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Given MSU's total annual costs of approximately $17,000 (I added an allowance to the MSU total for transportation/miscellaneous to make the two schools' totals comparable) the in-state cost of attending college in Montana is only slightly more than half the in-state cost of attending the University of Vermont. Over four years the cost premium of Vermont-style socialism adds up to between $55,000 and $60,000 per student.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bernie papers over the causes of skyrocketing tuition by declaring college education free and proposing to tax financial trades (a tax that won't happen when people wake up and realize it is a tax on their savings plans, annuities, and retirement accounts). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Should Bernie succeed in making college free we will be able to repurpose money I have earmarked for my three children's college education to join a country club, take a couple of cruises each year, and finance winter stays in Arizona. Sweet! Thanks!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Feel the Bern. Get stuff free. Vote Democrat. Elect Bernie!!!</span><br />
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Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-58829255354775189862016-02-10T12:20:00.000-07:002016-02-10T12:20:01.326-07:00Bridger Creek Golf<span style="font-size: large;">Bozeman got some play on the Golf Channel today when Bridger Creek's senior golf instruction program was featured on the Morning Drive program. Launch the video to see some of the background scenery that we are forced to play against in these parts. Eat your hearts out!</span><br />
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Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-7955755648371994472016-02-09T17:34:00.002-07:002016-02-09T17:34:56.014-07:00Feel the Bern! Equality for All!!!<span style="font-size: large;">He's winning. I worked nine years as a caddie, toiled as janitor and dishwasher, labored in plastics, cardboard box and culvert factories, and then got my first college degree. After studying hard and graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and working hard for decades thereafter, taking plenty of unpopular positions and bucking trends, I have done better than most people in life. It's unequal -- unfair. Vote Democrat. Elect Bernie!!!</span><div>
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Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-83666313921274664072016-02-01T19:47:00.000-07:002016-02-03T12:54:22.062-07:00Up the Valley<span style="font-size: large;">From time to time at Along the Gradyent we mention places or things that are up the valley. Up the valley it is about three miles to the foot of the Bridger and Gallitan Mountain ranges. Going another mile or two to the end of the road and then literally climbing up the mountain slope lives one of our daughter's high school friends (I will call her Dot), whose home (with stable and pasture) yields incredible views. Sunday I shifted the Jeep into four wheel drive and motored up the snowy and icy switchbacks to drop our daughter off at Dot's for a biology study session. I took the following photos, up the valley. Click to enlarge.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Up the valley looking back down the valley. Gallatin Mountains on the left and Bridger Mountains on the right. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">South to the Bridger Range. Up here you better have your own snow plow (right).</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="text-align: start;">Looking further up the valley to George Washington in repose. You can see this </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="text-align: start;">rocky outcropping from a distance on our </span><a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2016/01/look-up.html" style="text-align: start;">hot air balloon photo</a><span style="text-align: start;"> (far right).</span></span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: start;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="text-align: start;"> </span><span style="text-align: start;">Dot's horse looks kinda like a Pinto.</span></span></td></tr>
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Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-70963207509407650492016-01-31T17:03:00.000-07:002016-01-31T17:03:54.942-07:00What a Difference a Year Makes<span style="font-size: large;">Last year </span><span style="font-size: large;">we played golf in Bozeman on February 5. That's not going to happen in this supremely normal winter of 2015-16.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.cottonwoodhills.com/live.php">Web Cam view</a> from the clubhouse, across the putting green to the cottonwoods at the first tee, Cottonwood Hills Golf Course, Bozeman, Montana, January 31, 2016, 5:00 pm MST.</span></td></tr>
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<br />Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-91704989473660732602016-01-27T14:57:00.002-07:002016-01-28T07:03:22.538-07:00It Never Rains in California<span style="font-size: large;">Except when it does, of course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It has been raining. Drought in large portions of California is endangered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But going by the U.S. government Drought Monitor 100 percent of California remains in drought. Soaking rains and heavy snows, according to the government, have done essentially nothing to attenuate the extent or even the severity of drought.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Compared to the January 12 Monitor (left hand map) only a tiny portion of California is experiencing less severe drought this week (see the extreme northwest corner of the January 19 map on the right). Yet the news on the ground has been nothing but good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The following graph depicts water storage at <a href="http://imported%20from%20ie/">Lake Shasta</a> (a good benchmark because it is the largest reservoir in the state) in northern California. The January improvement is dramatic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The graphs are on an October 1 to September 30 water year basis. This year's water storage in Lake Shasta has spiked to 2.1 million acre feet, which beats last year's and the previous year's storage for the same time of year. Current water storage is substantially greater than the 1.5 million acre feet January, 1977 low experienced during the worst previous drought. The trajectory of storage recovery is moving sharply upwards towards the long-term average (the solid blue shaded area) of about 2.9 million acre feet for this time of year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The recent news is similar for Lake Folsom, a more centrally reservoir located down near Sacramento. We highlight Lake Folsom here because it received <a href="https://www.blogger.com/Folsom%20Lake%E2%80%99s%20water%20level%20sank%20to%20its%20lowest%20level%20in%20history%20Saturday,%20a%20vivid%20reminder%20of%20California%E2%80%99s%20epic%20drought%20even%20as%20a%20new%20winter%20storm%20moved%20into%20the%20region.%20%20The%2060-year-old%20reservoir%20held%20140,501%20acre-feet%20of%20water%20at%20midafternoon,%20or%20roughly%2014%20percent%20of%20capacity,%20according%20to%20California%20Department%20of%20Water%20Resources%20data.%20The%20lake%20fell%20below%20the%20old%20record%20of%20140,600%20acre-feet,%20a%20mark%20seen%20during%20the%201977%20drought,%20around%20midnight%20Friday%20and%20continued%20falling%20through%20the%20day.%20%20%E2%80%9CCertainly%20a%20milestone%20we%20didn%E2%80%99t%20want%20to%20see%20happen,%E2%80%9D%20said%20Eric%20Kurth,%20a%20forecaster%20with%20the%20National%20Weather%20Service%20in%20Sacramento.%20An%20acre-foot%20is%20326,000%20gallons.%20%20Read%20more%20here:%20http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article44927409.html#storylink=cpy">substantial press</a> mid-November for falling to record lows.</span><br />
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Folsom Lake’s water level sank to its lowest level in history Saturday, a vivid reminder of California’s epic drought even as a new winter storm moved into the region.</blockquote>
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The 60-year-old reservoir held 140,501 acre-feet of water at midafternoon, or roughly 14 percent of capacity, according to California Department of Water Resources data. The lake fell below the old record of 140,600 acre-feet, a mark seen during the 1977 drought, around midnight Friday and continued falling through the day.</blockquote>
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“Certainly a milestone we didn’t want to see happen,” said Eric Kurth, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Sacramento. An acre-foot is 326,000 gallons.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Storage at Lake Folsom has jumped up from about 140,501 acre feet to 388,656 acre feet. It is now well above the 1976-77 drought year floor and headed towards normal. We will get to the sustainability of that rebound (and Lake Shasta's) in a bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The reason for increased water is simple. It rained and it rained a lot. Here are 30 day precipitation charts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">During the last month the Mount Shasta area received 12 inches of rain which is 5.8 inches more than, or about 190 percent of, normal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rainfall was also abundant in Sacr</span><span style="font-size: large;">amento, near Lake Folsom which is the state capitol city's municipal water source.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sacramento has had 5.2 inches of rain the last 30 days which is 2.0 inches above and 160 percent of normal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The snow conditions at California ski resorts last weekend were as follows:</span><br />
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</th><th style="background: rgb(247, 247, 247); border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; font-weight: normal; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">Snow condition</th><th style="background: rgb(247, 247, 247); border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; font-weight: normal; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">Last snowfall</th><th style="background: rgb(247, 247, 247); border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; font-weight: normal; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">Summit depth</th><th style="background: rgb(247, 247, 247); border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; font-weight: normal; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">Weather</th><th style="background: rgb(247, 247, 247); border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; font-weight: normal; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">Open trails</th><th style="background: rgb(247, 247, 247); border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; font-weight: normal; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">Open lifts</th></tr>
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<a data-ved="0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgdMAA" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1703&bih=902&site=webhp&q=China+Peak+snow+conditions&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMQfMQoyy3w8sc9YSmRTXsfXmTk42BR4tLP1TewTE_JzUrhAQCrc0wVIgAAAA&expnd=1&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgdMAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="China Peak">China Peak</a></div>
<span style="color: #009933;">Open</span></div>
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</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">Powder</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">10"<br />
<span class="_Rhc _MMb" style="color: #777777; font-size: smaller; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="_Bic" style="display: inline-block;">Yesterday</span></span></td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">95"</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;"><span class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="Sunny" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/sunny.png" style="height: 22px; vertical-align: middle; width: 22px;" title="Sunny" /> 31°F</span></td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">45/45</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">9/11</td></tr>
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<a data-ved="0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgeMAA" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1703&bih=902&site=webhp&q=Mount+Shasta+Ski+Park+snow+conditions&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMQfMQoyy3w8sc9YSmRTXsfXmTk42BR4tLP1TcwKsitzIjnAQCdjMXkIgAAAA&expnd=1&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgeMAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Mount Shasta Ski Park">Mount Shasta Ski Park</a></div>
<span style="color: #009933;">Open</span></div>
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</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">Powder</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">10"<br />
<span class="_Rhc _MMb" style="color: #777777; font-size: smaller; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="_Bic" style="display: inline-block;">Yesterday</span></span></td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">96"</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;"><span class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="Partly Cloudy" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/partly_cloudy.png" style="height: 22px; vertical-align: middle; width: 22px;" title="Partly Cloudy" /> 29°F</span></td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">32/32</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">4/4</td></tr>
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<a data-ved="0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgfMAA" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1703&bih=902&site=webhp&q=Boreal+Mountain+Resort+snow+conditions&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMQfMQoyy3w8sc9YSmRTXsfXmTk42BR4tLP1TcwqjCutKziAQA66zgKIgAAAA&expnd=1&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgfMAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Boreal Mountain Resort">Boreal Mountain Resort</a></div>
<span style="color: #009933;">Open</span></div>
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</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">Variable</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">9"<br />
<span class="_Rhc _MMb" style="color: #777777; font-size: smaller; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="_Bic" style="display: inline-block;">Yesterday</span></span></td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">100"</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;"><span class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="Sunny" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/sunny.png" style="height: 22px; vertical-align: middle; width: 22px;" title="Sunny" /> 35°F</span></td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">33/32</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">6/8</td></tr>
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<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px 7px 7px 0px;">
<div class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">
<a data-ved="0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQggMAA" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1703&bih=902&site=webhp&q=Homewood+Mountain+Resort+snow+conditions&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMQfMQoyy3w8sc9YSmRTXsfXmTk42BR4tLP1TewLKootKjiAQAmt_FCIgAAAA&expnd=1&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQggMAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Homewood Mountain Resort">Homewood Mountain Resort</a></div>
<span style="color: #009933;">Open</span></div>
</div>
</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">Powder</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">2"<br />
<span class="_Rhc _MMb" style="color: #777777; font-size: smaller; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="_Bic" style="display: inline-block;">Yesterday</span></span></td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">93"</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;"><span class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="Sunny" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/sunny.png" style="height: 22px; vertical-align: middle; width: 22px;" title="Sunny" /> 31°F</span></td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">60/64</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">8/8</td></tr>
<tr class="_Ohc"><td class="_xk" colspan="7" style="background-color: #ebebeb; border-left-style: none; height: 1px; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="_Vi" style="padding-left: 20px;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px 7px 7px 0px;">
<div class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">
<a data-ved="0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQghMAA" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1703&bih=902&site=webhp&q=Tahoe+Donner+snow+conditions&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMQfMQoyy3w8sc9YSmRTXsfXmTk42BR4tLP1TfIqMozLjLjAQDDLXzUIgAAAA&expnd=1&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQghMAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Tahoe Donner">Tahoe Donner</a></div>
<span style="color: #009933;">Open</span></div>
</div>
</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">Packed powder</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">1"<br />
<span class="_Rhc _MMb" style="color: #777777; font-size: smaller; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="_Bic" style="display: inline-block;">Yesterday</span></span></td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">110"</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;"><span class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="Sunny" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/sunny.png" style="height: 22px; vertical-align: middle; width: 22px;" title="Sunny" /> 36°F</span></td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">16/16</td><td class="_Frb" style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 7px;">5/5</td></tr>
<tr class="_Ohc"><td colspan="7" style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="_xk xpdxpnd" data-mh="1px" style="background-color: #ebebeb; height: 1px; max-height: 1px; overflow: hidden; transition: 0.3s;">
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="xpdxpnd _Vi" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 20px; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px 7px 7px 0px;">
<div class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">
<a data-ved="0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgiMAA" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1703&bih=902&site=webhp&q=Kirkwood+Mountain+Resort+snow+conditions&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMQfMQoyy3w8sc9YSmRTXsfXmTk42BR4tLP1TcwMivPKzHgAQCVqAMtIgAAAA&expnd=1&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgiMAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Kirkwood Mountain Resort">Kirkwood Mountain Resort</a></div>
<span style="color: #009933;">Open</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
Packed powder</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
1"<br />
<span class="_Rhc _MMb" style="color: #777777; font-size: smaller; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="_Bic" style="display: inline-block;">Yesterday</span></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
94"</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="36" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
<span class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="Sunny" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/sunny.png" style="height: 22px; vertical-align: middle; width: 22px;" title="Sunny" /> 30°F</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
86/86</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
14/15</div>
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr class="_Ohc"><td colspan="7" style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="_xk xpdxpnd" data-mh="1px" style="background-color: #ebebeb; height: 1px; max-height: 1px; overflow: hidden; transition: 0.3s;">
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="xpdxpnd _Vi" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 20px; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px 7px 7px 0px;">
<div class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">
<a data-ved="0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgjMAA" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1703&bih=902&site=webhp&q=Mammoth+Mountain+Ski+Area+snow+conditions&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMQfMQowy3w8sc9YSnhTXsfXmTk5WBR4tTP1TcwrLAozuMBAENRzqUhAAAA&expnd=1&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgjMAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Mammoth Mountain Ski Area">Mammoth Mountain Ski Area</a></div>
<span style="color: #009933;">Open</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
Packed powder</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
11"<br />
<span class="_Rhc _MMb" style="color: #777777; font-size: smaller; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">Jan 23</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
125"</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="36" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
<span class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="Sunny" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/sunny.png" style="height: 22px; vertical-align: middle; width: 22px;" title="Sunny" /> 25°F</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
151/151</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
28/28</div>
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr class="_Ohc"><td colspan="7" style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="_xk xpdxpnd" data-mh="1px" style="background-color: #ebebeb; height: 1px; max-height: 1px; overflow: hidden; transition: 0.3s;">
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="xpdxpnd _Vi" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 20px; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px 7px 7px 0px;">
<div class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">
<a data-ved="0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgkMAA" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1703&bih=902&site=webhp&q=Squaw+Valley+Ski+Resort+snow+conditions&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMQfMQowy3w8sc9YSnhTXsfXmTk5WBR4tTP1Tcwy82wsOQBABnf81IhAAAA&expnd=1&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgkMAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Squaw Valley Ski Resort">Squaw Valley Ski Resort</a></div>
<span style="color: #009933;">Open</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
Powder</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
7"<br />
<span class="_Rhc _MMb" style="color: #777777; font-size: smaller; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">Jan 23</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
120"</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="36" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
<span class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="Sunny" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/sunny.png" style="height: 22px; vertical-align: middle; width: 22px;" title="Sunny" /> 31°F</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
197/110</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
36/42</div>
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr class="_Ohc"><td colspan="7" style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="_xk xpdxpnd" data-mh="1px" style="background-color: #ebebeb; height: 1px; max-height: 1px; overflow: hidden; transition: 0.3s;">
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="xpdxpnd _Vi" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 20px; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px 7px 7px 0px;">
<div class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">
<a data-ved="0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQglMAA" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1703&bih=902&site=webhp&q=Northstar+California+snow+conditions&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMQfMQowy3w8sc9YSnhTXsfXmTk5WBR4tTP1TdIzzAvN-YBALi2hk8hAAAA&expnd=1&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQglMAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Northstar California">Northstar California</a></div>
<span style="color: #009933;">Open</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
Packed powder</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
4"<br />
<span class="_Rhc _MMb" style="color: #777777; font-size: smaller; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">Jan 23</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
99"</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="36" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
<span class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="Sunny" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/sunny.png" style="height: 22px; vertical-align: middle; width: 22px;" title="Sunny" /> 31°F</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
100/97</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
15/20</div>
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr class="_Ohc"><td colspan="7" style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="_xk xpdxpnd" data-mh="1px" style="background-color: #ebebeb; height: 1px; max-height: 1px; overflow: hidden; transition: 0.3s;">
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="xpdxpnd _Vi" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 20px; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px 7px 7px 0px;">
<div class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">
<a data-ved="0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgmMAA" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1703&bih=902&site=webhp&q=Sugar+Bowl+Ski+Resort+snow+conditions&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMQfMQoyy3w8sc9YSmRTXsfXmTk42BR4tLP1TcwMisvLqzgAQAxIBuxIgAAAA&expnd=1&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgmMAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Sugar Bowl Ski Resort">Sugar Bowl Ski Resort</a></div>
<span style="color: #009933;">Open</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
Powder</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
2"<br />
<span class="_Rhc _MMb" style="color: #777777; font-size: smaller; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">Jan 23</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
125"</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="36" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
<span class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="Sunny" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/sunny.png" style="height: 22px; vertical-align: middle; width: 22px;" title="Sunny" /> 33°F</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
99/102</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
12/13</div>
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</td></tr>
<tr class="_Ohc"><td colspan="7" style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="_xk xpdxpnd" data-mh="1px" style="background-color: #ebebeb; height: 1px; max-height: 1px; overflow: hidden; transition: 0.3s;">
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="xpdxpnd _Vi" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 20px; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px 7px 7px 0px;">
<div class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">
<a data-ved="0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgnMAA" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1703&bih=902&site=webhp&q=Bear+Valley+snow+conditions&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMQfMQowy3w8sc9YSnhTXsfXmTk5WBR4tTP1TcwKs6qtOQBAJCb480hAAAA&expnd=1&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgnMAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Bear Valley">Bear Valley</a></div>
<span style="color: #009933;">Open</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
Packed powder</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
2"<br />
<span class="_Rhc _MMb" style="color: #777777; font-size: smaller; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">Jan 23</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
91"</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="36" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
<span class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="Sunny" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/sunny.png" style="height: 22px; vertical-align: middle; width: 22px;" title="Sunny" /> 34°F</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
53/75</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
8/9</div>
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</td></tr>
<tr class="_Ohc"><td colspan="7" style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="_xk xpdxpnd" data-mh="1px" style="background-color: #ebebeb; height: 1px; max-height: 1px; overflow: hidden; transition: 0.3s;">
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="xpdxpnd _Vi" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 20px; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px 7px 7px 0px;">
<div class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">
<a data-ved="0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgoMAA" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1703&bih=902&site=webhp&q=Sierra-at-Tahoe+snow+conditions&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMQfMQoyy3w8sc9YSmRTXsfXmTk42BR4tLP1TcwMisvqCzjAQDp8z4zIgAAAA&expnd=1&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgoMAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Sierra-at-Tahoe">Sierra-at-Tahoe</a></div>
<span style="color: #009933;">Open</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
Packed powder</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
2"<br />
<span class="_Rhc _MMb" style="color: #777777; font-size: smaller; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">Jan 23</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
108"</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="36" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
<span class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="Sunny" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/sunny.png" style="height: 22px; vertical-align: middle; width: 22px;" title="Sunny" /> 31°F</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
44/46</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
8/14</div>
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr class="_Ohc"><td colspan="7" style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="_xk xpdxpnd" data-mh="1px" style="background-color: #ebebeb; height: 1px; max-height: 1px; overflow: hidden; transition: 0.3s;">
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="xpdxpnd _Vi" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 20px; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px 7px 7px 0px;">
<div class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">
<a data-ved="0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgpMAA" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1703&bih=902&site=webhp&q=Heavenly+Mountain+Resort+snow+conditions&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMQfMQowy3w8sc9YSnhTXsfXmTk5WBR4tTP1TcwzI43zeUBABrRRXshAAAA&expnd=1&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgpMAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Heavenly Mountain Resort">Heavenly Mountain Resort</a></div>
<span style="color: #009933;">Open</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
Packed powder</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
1"<br />
<span class="_Rhc _MMb" style="color: #777777; font-size: smaller; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">Jan 23</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
81"</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="36" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
<span class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="Sunny" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/sunny.png" style="height: 22px; vertical-align: middle; width: 22px;" title="Sunny" /> 25°F</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
97/97</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
24/28</div>
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</td></tr>
<tr class="_Ohc"><td colspan="7" style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="_xk xpdxpnd" data-mh="1px" style="background-color: #ebebeb; height: 1px; max-height: 1px; overflow: hidden; transition: 0.3s;">
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-left-style: none; max-width: 123px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="xpdxpnd _Vi" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 20px; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px 7px 7px 0px;">
<div class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">
<a data-ved="0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgqMAA" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1703&bih=902&site=webhp&q=Badger+Pass+Ski+Area+snow+conditions&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMQfMQowy3w8sc9YSnhTXsfXmTk5WBR4tTP1TdItqg0KuABAIZHyjohAAAA&expnd=1&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj87srq-MXKAhUD0WMKHaUFByEQMQgqMAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Badger Pass Ski Area">Badger Pass Ski Area</a></div>
<span style="color: #009933;">Open</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
Powder</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="44" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 44px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
18"<br />
<span class="_Rhc _MMb" style="color: #777777; font-size: smaller; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">Jan 22</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
78"</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="36" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
<span class="_MMb" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="Sunny" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/sunny.png" style="height: 22px; vertical-align: middle; width: 22px;" title="Sunny" /> 32°F</span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
10/10</div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; min-width: 50px; padding: 0px;"><div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="29" data-mhc="1" style="max-height: 29px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s;">
<div class="_Frb" style="padding: 7px;">
4/5</div>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Both Lake Shasta and Lake Folsom are fed by rivers in Sierra Nevada Mountain drainages. The key as to whether the reservoir storage will continue to surge during this water year lies as much in their respective snowpacks as in continued rain showers. Here are the current year favorable snowpack readings. Shasta is Northern Sierra. Folsom is Central Sierra.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">By comparison the last years' snowpacks were pathetic. The following compares current year snowpacks with the last two years and the drought year of 1976-77. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The snowpacks for the North and Central mountain regions is well above normal and several times the snowpacks of the last two years and the 1976-77 drought year. In the South Sierras the snowpack is spot on normal and also several times the snowpacks of the the previous drought years. This is shaping up as a tremendous water year for central and northern California. It will be interesting to watch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-39058348898500088382016-01-17T16:44:00.000-07:002016-01-27T06:45:22.908-07:00Thoughts and Notes About a California Drought<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;">California Governor Jerry Brown during a message to the </span><span style="font-size: small;">California</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> state </span><span style="font-size: small;">legislature </span><span style="font-size: small;">on Jan. 6, 1977, "We are going to have to learn to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> share -- north and south -- </span><span style="font-size: small;">all </span><span style="font-size: small;">of us together." "It is the only </span><span style="font-size: small;">way </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Steinbeck wrote it as fiction but he spoke the truth in "East of Eden."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">California is experiencing its most severe drought of my lifetime, though the drought is only modestly worse than the 1976-77 drought that intersected with my three year residence in California. When I moved to California in the fall of 1975 and first saw the indigenous flora it was brown, and it remained brown for the rest of the year and throughout 1976, and then through the summer and early fall of 1977. The dawning of the "Little Ice Age" was ascendant in the minds of many climatologists of the time, and the theory of global cooling was cited as possible cause. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was a place on Stanford campus called Lake Laguanita. To my repeated observation it contained nary a liquid drop. So for two solid years that is what I thought California was -- dry and brown. And in a weird way it made sense that the good citizens of the Golden State elected young, austere Jerry Brown as governor. So now, almost forty years later California elected elderly, austere Jerry Brown. The citizenry are nothing if not consistent. They believe more in symbolism than solutions. Coincidental this is not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I recall in the 1976-77 timeframe driving from the San Francisco Bay Area, past Lake Shasta on a trip up to Seattle. I looked down and was appalled by how far the reservoir level had dropped from its peak capacity. I saw boats and docks and marinas marooned high and dry. The water supply was shriveling up. The life it supported would surely waste away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There will always be drought somewhere -- most dramatically in semi-arid climates that depend on short seasonal surges of rain and snow to replenish water supplies. In these locales if they do not get their water in a three or four month window, there's no making it up later on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Drought has myriad causes and periodicities, though that is not the way Dear President sees it. We have zero evidence that the man ever stuck his noggin inside a chemistry, physics, biology or meteorology lecture hall or worked at a bench in a scientific lab. He knows not the difference between the scientific and Socratic methods. He pontificates nevertheless.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">[It] is undeniable .. that changing temperatures influence drought in at least three ways: Number one, more rain falls in extreme downpours -- so more water is lost to runoff than captured for use. Number two, more precipitation in the mountains falls as rain rather than snow -- so rivers run dry earlier in the year. Number three, soil and reservoirs lose more water to evaporation year-round.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">What does all this mean? Unless and until we do more to combat carbon pollution that causes climate change, this trend is going to get worse. And the hard truth is even if we do take action on climate change, carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades. The planet is slowly going to keep warming for a long time to come. So we’re going to have to stop looking at these disasters as something to wait for; we've got to start looking at these disasters as something to prepare for, to anticipate, to start building new infrastructure, to start having new plans, to recalibrate the baseline that we're working off of.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">And everybody, from farmers to industry to residential areas, to the north of California and the south of California and everyplace in between, as well as the entire Western region are going to have to start rethinking how we approach water for decades to come.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">From "<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/14/remarks-president-california-drought">Remarks by the President on the California Drought.</a>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As for Dear President's asserted relationship between snow and temperature, overnight we got about six inches of snow here at Chez Gradyent, while temperatures ranged from 25 to 30 degrees. Let's say instead that the thermometer dropped to 5, 10 or 15 degrees. We likely would not have gotten more than one or two inches of the white stuff. The always frigid South Pole averages only eight inches of snow accumulation annually. That's not even a good snow day in the Sierra Nevada mountains along the eastern spine of California. Higher temperatures mean less snow? Colder temperatures means more snow? Forget about it. Duh, the colder it gets the drier it gets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As for Dear President's claim about extreme downpours, a Californian he is not. We note that California is getting above normal rain so far this winter. Here is what the daily weather patterns looked like in Sacramento -- moderation on top of moderation. Obama lives in a factual wasteland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">2016 Temperature Precip. Accum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">1 48.6 °F 39.4 °F 0 in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">2 50.5 °F 42.5 °F 0 in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">3 56.7 °F 47.2 °F 0 in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">4 55.2 °F 47.8 °F 0.21 in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">5 54.5 °F 50.5 °F 1.48 in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">6 52.2 °F 49.0 °F 0.53 in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">7 53.2 °F 46.7 °F 0.04 in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">8 53.1 °F 44.8 °F 0.02 in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">9 54.1 °F 49.1 °F 0.09 in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">10 57.2 °F 49.8 °F 0.13 in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">11 59.4 °F 51.0 °F 0 in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">12 59.5 °F 49.8 °F 0.01 in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">13 60.4 °F 53.0 °F 0.47 in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">14 52.7 °F 47.1 °F 0.09 in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">15 55.6 °F 49.4 °F 0.14 in</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It rained eleven out of first fifteen days of the year in Sacramento -- a total of 3.21 inches or an average of just over two tenths of an inch daily. Only once did it rain more than an inch in a single day -- that at 1.48 inches hardly qualifies as a gully washer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let's look at the daily January rainfall further north at Redding, California near Lake Shasta.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Jan. 2016 </span><span style="font-size: large;">Precip. (in)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KRDD/2016/1/1/DailyHistory.html">1</a> 0.00</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KRDD/2016/1/4/DailyHistory.html">4</a> 0.83</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KRDD/2016/1/5/DailyHistory.html">5</a> 1.89</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KRDD/2016/1/7/DailyHistory.html">7</a> 0.03</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KRDD/2016/1/8/DailyHistory.html">8</a> 0.00</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KRDD/2016/1/9/DailyHistory.html">9</a> 0.74</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KRDD/2016/1/10/DailyHistory.html">10</a> 0.00 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KRDD/2016/1/11/DailyHistory.html">11</a> 0.00 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KRDD/2016/1/12/DailyHistory.html">12</a> 0.22 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KRDD/2016/1/13/DailyHistory.html">13</a> 0.48 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KRDD/2016/1/14/DailyHistory.html">14</a> 1.30 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KRDD/2016/1/15/DailyHistory.html">15</a> 0.08 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Redding has totalled 7.18 inches of rain, a little less than half an inch per day. Only the January 5th and 6th rainfall of just over 3 inches can be characterized as a major rain event, yet it is nothing compared to extreme events experienced elsewhere in the country that are buffeted by supercells or tropical systems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enough for Dear President's shamateurish predictions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let's look at data that the U.S. Federal Government publishes on the extent of drought. The "<a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home.aspx">Drought Monitor</a>" categorizes five levels of drought -- Abnormally Dry, Moderate Drought, Severe Drought, Extreme Drought and Exceptional Drought. Please excuse the adjective inflaton. That's from government bureaucracy -- they can't help themselves. It is important that public officials be of consequence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let's start with the three years back map which showed extreme and exceptional drought through much of the center of the country. Obama and company really liked talking about droughts and climate change back then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On January 15, 2013, 71.15 percent of the country was in some sort of a drought condition or another.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then fast forward to the present. Here is the most recent national Drought Monitor map.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Drought is non-existent in the areas that had severe and exceptional drought three years ago. The current concentration of exceptional and severe drought is centered on California. Only 29.54 percent of the U. S. landscape is now in drought, one of the smaller percentages in the 16 years of weekly observations included in the Drought Monitor. Things are improving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To see just how quickly things can change when we were in Seattle this summer the news was afire with stories about drought and climate change. Rivers and reservoirs were drying up -- so we were told. One hundred percent of the state was in drought condition, all Severe and Extreme. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But look see now, a little over four months later. Only 39.55 percent of the state is in drought, and the least intense categories at that. If current weather patterns continue, the entire state may become drought free in upcoming weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A primary driver of the 2015 drought was the absence of significant mountain snow packs left over from the 2014-15 winter season.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Large snow deficits persisted throughout the season causing ski resorts to shut down in late January and early February. By late spring snow water snowpack equivalents had plummeted to nothing and next to nothing in most of the state.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This year the story is quite different. Most of Washington state has significantly greater than normal snowpack. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are the current snow conditions at The Summit at Snoqualmie, 54 miles east of Seattle. Wow!</span><br />
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Today's snow conditions</div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.1818px;">The Summit at Snoqualmie: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #009933; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.1818px;">Open</span><br />
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Snow</div>
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Powder</div>
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Open trails</div>
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54/112</div>
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Open lifts</div>
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19/25</div>
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Base</div>
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<tr><td class="_tS" style="font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;">84"</td><td style="padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="Rain" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/rain.png" style="height: 24px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: -3px; width: 24px;" title="Rain" /></td><td class="_tS" style="font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 94.5455px;">36°F</td></tr>
<tr><td class="_Erb" style="font-size: small; overflow-x: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Snow depth</td><td style="padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="135°" src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,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" style="margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 3px; transform-origin: 50% 50% 0px; transform: rotate(225deg); width: 18px;" /></td><td class="_Erb" style="font-size: small; overflow-x: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">SE 5 mph</td></tr>
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Summit</div>
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<tr><td class="_tS" style="font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;">84"</td><td style="padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="Snow" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/snow.png" style="height: 24px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: -3px; width: 24px;" title="Snow" /></td><td class="_tS" style="font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 94.5455px;">29°F</td></tr>
<tr><td class="_Erb" style="font-size: small; overflow-x: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Snow depth</td><td style="padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="135°" src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,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" style="margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 3px; transform-origin: 50% 50% 0px; transform: rotate(225deg); width: 18px;" /></td><td class="_Erb" style="font-size: small; overflow-x: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">SE 5 mph</td></tr>
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Recent snowfall</div>
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72 hrs</div>
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<div class="_Wlb" style="height: 88px; left: 105.412px; position: absolute; text-align: center; top: 3px; width: 26.0511px;">
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48 hrs</div>
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<span class="_Aid" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; padding: 0px 5px;"><span class="_QYc" style="color: #4d8ffd;">12"</span></span></div>
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24 hrs</div>
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Forecast</div>
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<div class="_Wlb" style="height: 17px; left: 21.3068px; position: absolute; text-align: center; top: 74px; width: 26.0511px;">
<div class="_khc _Bid" style="bottom: 16.9886px; font-size: 12px; left: -26.0511px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 2px; overflow-x: hidden; position: absolute; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 78.1534px;">
<span class="_Aid" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; padding: 0px 5px;"><span class="_MYc" style="color: #777777;">4"</span></span></div>
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<span class="_Bic" style="display: inline-block;"><b>Today</b></span></div>
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<span class="_NYc" style="color: inherit;">29°</span> <span class="_OYc" style="color: #888888;">26°</span></div>
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<div class="_khc _Bid" style="bottom: 13.9915px; font-size: 12px; left: -26.0511px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 2px; overflow-x: hidden; position: absolute; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 78.1534px;">
<span class="_Aid" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; padding: 0px 5px;"><span class="_MYc" style="color: #777777;">3"</span></span></div>
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Mon</div>
<img alt="Partly Cloudy" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/partly_cloudy.png" style="height: 22px; width: 22px;" title="Partly Cloudy" /><br />
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<span class="_NYc" style="color: inherit;">32°</span> <span class="_OYc" style="color: #888888;">25°</span></div>
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<div class="_Wlb" style="height: 15px; left: 133.438px; position: absolute; text-align: center; top: 76px; width: 26.0511px;">
<div class="_khc _Bid" style="bottom: 15px; font-size: 12px; left: -26.0511px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 2px; overflow-x: hidden; position: absolute; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 78.1534px;">
<span class="_Aid" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; padding: 0px 5px;"><span class="_MYc" style="color: #777777;">3"</span></span></div>
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Tue</div>
<img alt="Cloudy" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/cloudy.png" style="height: 22px; width: 22px;" title="Cloudy" /><br />
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<span class="_NYc" style="color: inherit;">31°</span> <span class="_OYc" style="color: #888888;">24°</span></div>
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<div class="_Wlb" style="height: 10px; left: 189.503px; position: absolute; text-align: center; top: 81px; width: 26.0511px;">
<div class="_khc _Bid" style="bottom: 10px; font-size: 12px; left: -26.0511px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 2px; overflow-x: hidden; position: absolute; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 78.1534px;">
<span class="_Aid" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; padding: 0px 5px;"><span class="_MYc" style="color: #777777;">2"</span></span></div>
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Wed</div>
<img alt="Cloudy" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/onebox/weather/48/cloudy.png" style="height: 22px; width: 22px;" title="Cloudy" /><br />
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<span class="_NYc" style="color: inherit;">28°</span> <span class="_OYc" style="color: #888888;">25°</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At sea level and in the valleys rain has been abundant</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over the last ninety days, Seattle's rainfall is 8.8 inches, or about 50 percent high than normal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yakima's three-month rainfall is 2.3 inches, or about 60 percent greater than normal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the most recent California Drought Monitor map. One hundred percent of the state is in drought.</span><br />
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Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-48115384584454991042016-01-11T17:28:00.000-07:002016-01-11T17:28:04.978-07:00Visiting The Old Homestead<span style="font-size: large;">We <a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2015/08/over-there.html">wrote last summer about a second cousin in Sweden</a>, Roland Classon. A "genealogy fiend" I called him. Yesterday Roland <a href="http://blogg.hd.se/slaktforskning/2016/01/10/amerikabesoket-blev-en-osannolik-historia/">wrote on his genealogy blog </a>about my sister's and daughter's July visit, which the rest of my family took advantage of to vacation in Seattle, using my sister's house as home base. Roland lives in Helsingborg, located at the narrowest part of the Oresund strait, across from Denmark.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We repeat Roland's post in the following, verbatim -- translated into English of course. His references to Kuttaboda are to the rural crossroads of our ancestral home located about five miles east of Aseda (population 6,336) proper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">But my American relatives also had a special desire: to see the old family farm in Småland, Kuttaboda </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">Mellangård</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">, where we have common roots.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;"><b>We were approaching</b>. I drove slowly along the narrow dirt road to not miss anything, but soon realized that we had driven too far.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">And it was perhaps not surprising. Everything was overgrown. Kuttaboda Mellangård could not be seen from the road, but finally we saw the red building with white portico.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><b>But to take it from the beginning:</b> my grandmother Hildegard Claesson and Joanne Foster's grandfather Johan August Stödberg were siblings. They were born and grew up in Kuttaboda </span>Mellangård<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">. Of the nine siblings four emigrated to America in the early 1900s. Johan August Stödberg said goodbye to his family as 21-year-old in 1911 and never returned to Sweden. He settled in Chicago, took the name John Stuberg and became a bricklayer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">John Stuberg died in 1951. Three years later, in 1954, his wife Elsa Stuberg traveled to Sweden to visit family and friends. She even came to Kuttaboda and then created quite a stir. At that time it was not so common for an American visit.</span></span></div>
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<b>Now, 61 years later</b>, it was time again for a new historical journey through time. We were lucky. It was a beautiful day with blue sky. And it felt a little strange and almost a bit unreal.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">Everything could have ended with that we have seen the family farm and then traveled back to Helsingborg again. But we got help from higher powers ... All was shaped into a good improbable story:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">After half an hour, when we were ready to travel on, a car stopped a few meters in front of the house. We were greeted politely by a young couple, who proved to be the current owners of our ancestral home. We explained why we were there. And received an encouraging response:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">- We have not been here for a whole year. You may want to join in and see how it looks?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">Joanne Foster and Blake Foster-Wagamon moved thus about 100 years back in time. Much still looked like before. Everything was well preserved. We took plenty of time, photographed, carefully checked out the walls.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">- This will be a memory for life, said Joanne.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">Before we would leave town we talked with one of Kuttaboda's oldest inhabitants. Ella Nilsson, 83, "happened" namely, to sit out on her patio. She knew all about the family Stödberg.</span></span></div>
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<b>In Aseda the church </b>was open for visitors when we arrived. It closed an hour later. Joanne and Blake saw the painting our relatives once donated to the church.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">I showed the family graves in the cemetery (including a tomb from the 1700s), and took the picture of Joanne Foster, just where her grandmother once posed for the photographer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;"><b>We went to visit the family's </b>eldest Thorsten Magnusson, 94, and his wife Keile and had a nice chat. The eldest of the family's youngest, Blake, 14, felt the pulse of history.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">A few days later Joanne and Blake even managed to meet the second-oldest in the family: Majken Starkenberg, 93, in Stockholm. Yes, the language went well. Majken had also met with Joanne's mother, Evelyn Foster during a visit in 1987.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;"><b>An e-mail from Joanne Foster </b>summed family trip:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">"We had such a wonderful time in Helsingborg and Stockholm. Thank you for showing us all that fantastic. It was wonderful to see our common ancestral farm. Both Blake and I have become "Sweden Fancy", if that is a word found in Swedish! "</span></span></div>
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Stödberg, Carl 1914 family.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How it looked in 1914 at Kuttaboda Mellangård, front row: Teolinda (1862-1950), Gottfrid and Carl Stödberg (1852-1922). Standing, back row from left: Ottilia, Hildegard, Jenny, Anna and Nanny. Three of the children had already emigrated to America.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Stödberg, Gottfrid 1954, and Elsa.</span></em></div>
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<i>Gottfrid Stödberg (1904-1984) and Elsa Stuberg (1894-1984) during their visit to Kuttaboda Mellangård 1954.</i></div>
<br />Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-14822711391707132202016-01-05T18:20:00.001-07:002016-01-05T18:27:55.447-07:00Avalanche Season Is Here<span style="font-size: large;">While back East people enjoyed unseasonably warm temperatures through December that were more amenable to playing frisbee or golf than sledding or skiing, we had plenty of early season snow, plus temperatures that averaged a bit below normal since November 1. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ski areas are going strong. Just fifteen miles north of us, Mother Nature dumped one hundred and nine inches of snow at the community sponsored Bridger Bowl skiing area through Christmas Eve. Powder and packed powder were the norm. A fresh coat of snow was falling almost every day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nearby to our south, the Big Sky ski resort reported a 40 to 60 inch snow base and "fantastic skiing and riding." Big Sky invites "C’mon out and enjoy the biggest skiing in America! We’re sure you’ll be stoked you did!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The Bozeman Chronicle reported on the early season opening of the ski season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Santa Claus came early and filled Bridger Bowl with 2 feet of smoky snow this week, appeasing the valley’s powder hounds. From the ski hill’s parking lot it was apparent that Bozeman had been stricken with the powder flu — 2,305 skied Thursday. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Dec. 11 opening day at Bridger Bowl was a week later than last year. But the weather’s been cooperating since and 13,265 people have visited in the first week.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“This time of year it’s always a touchy point waiting for the right storms to really kick things off,” said Doug Wales, Bridger Bowl’s director of marketing. “Some years you start fat and happy.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wales was a bit skeptical about the preseason forecasts for a warm, dry El Niño year in the Rocky Mountains. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It’s setting up well now and right when we need it for the holidays,” Wales said. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The big challenge is getting the snow, and we’re on our way. Obviously its got to keep up and we’ll continue to make snow as much as we can early on,” he said. “But we’re excited about where we are today.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Out-of-bounds and backcountry skiers take note, the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center <a href="http://www.mtavalanche.com/current">said danger was high</a> on steep and windy slopes.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The Bridger Range has received close to 2 feet of snow this week and over 1 inch of <a href="http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/or/snow/?cid=nrcs142p2_046155">snow water equivalent</a>. Yesterday’s low density snow will create loose snow avalanches that could become large enough to knock you over or trigger a larger avalanche. Strong winds prior to yesterday formed wind slabs on a weak snowpack that we observed on Saddle Peak last Sunday. New snow and a weak snowpack will make the avalanche danger today high on slopes steeper than 35 degrees and all wind-loaded terrain. Avalanche danger is considerable on all other slopes,” read Thursday’s report.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">To call attention to the potential for danger and publicize conditions, the Avalanche Center made an early season trip up Mt. Ellis (visible out my window over the laptop as I blog). For a flatlander like myself, Mt. Ellis a great place to hike -- before the snow falls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here was the Avalanche Center's December 19th warning.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center is issuing a Backcountry Avalanche Warning for the mountains near Cooke City, the Madison Range, the Gallatin Range, the Lionhead area near West Yellowstone, and the Bridger Range. Continuous snowfall and strong winds have added weight to a weak and unstable snowpack. Strong wind this morning will continue to load slopes. The avalanche danger is rated <a href="http://www.fsavalanche.org/high-danger">HIGH</a> on all slopes. Natural and human <a href="http://www.fsavalanche.org/trigger">triggered</a> <a href="http://www.fsavalanche.org/slide">slide</a>s are likely. Avalanche terrain and avalanche <a href="http://www.fsavalanche.org/runout-zone">runout zones</a> should be avoided.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sadly, the potential for tragedy came to pass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Park County Sheriff’s office has identified the snowmobiler killed in an avalanche north of Cooke City Saturday. He was 33-year-old Jason Wald of Bismarck, North Dakota.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wald was one of a party of five snomobilers on a steep slope at about 1:00 Saturday afternoon. According to a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp6MqrJVSPg">video made by Doug Chabot with the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center</a>, the riders were aware they were in a bad spot.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"They knew the danger was high, they felt like they needed to go elsewhere, it just didn’t happen soon enough."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Chabot says Wald triggered the slide as he rode past a 22-year-old man and his father who were talking about turning around. The 22-year-old was completely buried in the slide, but was dug out quickly and survived, as did his father, who was partially buried. Wald, who did not survive, was buried about six feet deep.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"We have about a foot to a foot-and-a-half of really weak, sugary snow on the ground, and that snow is really unstable."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While his colleagues held back, the victim headed up a slope that was too loaded and too steep. Mr. Wald failed to deploy his airpack, which would have given him a fighting chance to remain at or near the top of the cascading slide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had a no to little snow hiatus the last ten days, a break which should come to an end later this week. When we do get fresh new snow, the soft sugary base at the bottom of the snowpack persists -- throughout the winter. New snow and gusty winds will periodically increase the danger for avalanche as the season moves on. Be careful out there. Beware of steep wind loaded slopes, avoid cornices and stay in the trees. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Previous Avalanche Posts:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2014/01/beware-avalanche.html">Beware The Avalanche</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2015/04/skiing-into-oblivion.html">Skiing Into Oblivion</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2014/12/avalanche-advisories-issued.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Avalanche Advisories Issued</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2014/03/more-avalanche.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">More Avalanche</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The National Weather Service issued this statement for the Sacramento area.</span><br />
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... UNSETTLED WEATHER THIS WEEK...</div>
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.IMPACTS... *SLICK ROADS DUE TO RAIN AND SNOW.</div>
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*TRAVEL DELAYS AND CHAIN CONTROLS POSSIBLE IN THE MOUNTAINS, SNOW LEVELS 3500-4500 FEET.</div>
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THURSDAY WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.</div>
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*POTENTIAL FOR BURN SCAR DEBRIS FLOWS WITH THUNDERSTORMS.</div>
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.FORECAST CONFIDENCE... *HIGH FOR UNSETTLED PATTERN.</div>
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*MEDIUM FOR EXACT TIMING AND PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS OF EACH SYSTEM.</div>
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*MEDIUM FOR LOCATION OF THUNDERSTORMS.</div>
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.TIMING AND STRENGTH... *TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY *A STRONGER WAVE AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT IMPACTING TUESDAY MORNING COMMUTE. *HAZARDOUS TRAVEL FROM 4500 FEET AND ABOVE TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY.</div>
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*WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY *LOWER SNOW LEVELS TO 3500 FT BY WEDNESDAY EVENING. *AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY.</div>
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*FRIDAY IS THE BEST CHANCE FOR A BREAK FROM WET WEATHER.</div>
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*WET WEATHER POSSIBLE FOR NEXT WEEKEND, BUT DETAILS REMAIN UNCERTAIN.</div>
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.WEATHER SUMMARY... AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN IS SETTING UP THIS WEEK AS SEVERAL STORMS MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. THE FIRST WAVE BROUGHT A LINE OF SHOWERS THROUGH NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THIS MORNING. THE SECOND, STRONGER SYSTEM MOVES IN TONIGHT AND BRINGS ANOTHER ROUND OF MODERATE RAIN TO THE VALLEY.</div>
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A BRIEF BREAK IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY MORNING BEFORE YET ANOTHER COLDER WEATHER SYSTEM MOVES INTO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. VALLEY RAIN MAY IMPACT COMMUTE WEDNESDAY EVENING AND THURSDAY MORNING.</div>
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FRIDAY LOOKS LIKE THE DRIEST DAY THIS WEEK. THE WEEKEND LOOKS UNSETTLED, BUT DETAILS REMAIN UNCERTAIN ON TIMING AND STRENGTH.</div>
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A series of storms will bring welcome rainfall across California and other portions of the southwestern United States this week.</div>
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The track of these storms is fueled by El Niño in the tropical Pacific Ocean.</div>
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"The above-average temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, known as El Niño, tends to strengthen the storm track into the West Coast and occasionally California during the winter," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said.</div>
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While a parade of storms slammed into the northwestern United States during November and December, the southwestern U.S. will receive days of precipitation this week.</div>
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"The pattern in the West will remain quite active through the week," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Matt Rinde said.</div>
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While rainfall will be measured in inches from California and into parts of Arizona, these storms will not erase the drought across the Southwest.</div>
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Snow will fall across the mountains which will be beneficial for filling lakes and rivers during the spring and summer months. Snowfall will be measured in feet across the Sierra Nevada. Snow this week could cause travel problems near Donner Pass.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The next few storms to roll ashore will be from Wednesday into Friday and will be progressively stronger and bring heavier rainfall and mountain snow across all of California and into Arizona and New Mexico.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">"While most of the rain and snow will fall at moderate rates with minimal impact, there will be heavier rain later Tuesday into Tuesday night which could cause some flooding in some of the hills surrounding Los Angeles," Rinde said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">According to AccuWeather Meteorologist Dave Samuhel, "The storms during the second half of the week have the potential to unload 2-3 feet of snow on the mountains and ski resorts of Southern California."</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">In addition to wintry travel problems, enough rain will fall to raise the risk of sporadic urban flooding and a small number of mudslides, especially in burn scar areas from wildfires.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The mainstream media will tell you simplistically that this will not put an end to the California drought. While technically true, the string of storms will put a meaningful and welcome dent into the drought and take the edge off the crisis. And four or five weeks of this kind of weather, which has been known to happen when previous coastal droughts have broken, will in fact put an end to the drought. We have identified information sources. We will be watching and reporting because we are interested and hope that you will be too.</span><br />
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<br />Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713689133160480763.post-765622209374345062016-01-03T14:19:00.000-07:002016-01-05T06:25:18.464-07:00Found Again!<span style="font-size: large;">Readers of this blog know I have posted a number of times on the pre baby boom history of my hometown of Morton Grove, Illinois, and pipe up every now and again about goings on in or near my family's current residence of Bozeman, Montana. As these municipalities are geographically separated by the better part of a mile vertically and some 1,300 miles horizontally, and their populations are modest (Bozeman 37,280 and Morton Grove 23,270 in the last decennial census) you would not expect there would be a whole lot of intersection between the two populations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I received an </span><span style="font-size: large;">email at my blog address the other day titled "Small World" (you can get to my email address by clicking through the "View my full profile link" on the right side of this page). The sender, who we shall refer to as Mr. Moody, wrote as follows,</span><br />
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I recently happened upon your Blog. I am also from Morton Grove, and vaguely remember you from early childhood. I lived on 9000 block of Moody Street, went to Park View, then Niles West (Class of 76), and then on to Ann Arbor, Berkeley and beyond. You were about 4-5 years ahead of me if my recollection is correct.<u></u><u></u></div>
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I relocated here (Bozeman) in 2000 in an effort to escape the city and the practice of law (and to flyfish, ski, hike, etc.)<u></u><u></u></div>
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It would be good to meet you sometime. Keep up the Blog!<u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We love making new friends, discovering long lost or previously unknown relatives, and assisting people seeking our help to connect with others whom they surmise we might be able to find or hone in on based on writings in our blog (though the story had a bittersweet ending, we were able to help a man adopted as an infant track down his birth mother). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My life story seems to parallel (I attended rival schools in Madison and Palo Alto) my Bozeman neighbor more than a little bit. I responded.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Mr. Moody,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Great to hear from you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Your name sounds familiar, like I met you playing golf here or something like that. Your name is not ringing a bell from back in the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">We are ... just east of town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I presume you've read my Morton Grove posts. If not, they are tagged Morton Grove in the right hand column of my blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Caddied for nine years at Glen View Club, got the caddie scholarship, went to U Wisc. then Stanford and lived and worked in the DC area for 34 years before retiring and moving to Bozeman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Yes I graduated Niles West 1971 after attending Park View all the way through. Lived on the corner of Austin and Davis at 9101 N. Austin. I probably walked by your house on the way to or from Park View a thousand times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I have accumulated a lot of research on the Poehlmann Bros. greenhouse operation that, depending on which side of Moody you lived on, would have been in your backyard (see greenhouses in image below). I'll get it written up sometime in the next couple of months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I have a question. The Bozeman Parks website says Southside isn't open for skating yet, Is that right? I promised to take my kids skating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Until later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Cheers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Poehlmann Bros. Greenhouses (shuttered but not yet taken down in this 1939 view) are the row upon row of structures between Moody and the (North Branch of the Chicago) river in the above right photo. Our correspondent grew up in a home on Moody Avenue between Lake Street and Davis Street. We actually blogged once about <a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2013/11/50-years-ago-today_22.html">the route</a> I walked in my childhood to Park View School down his block of Moody, and another time wrote on <a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2014/07/morton-grove-mapped-through-time.html">the block north of Mr. Moody's childhood home</a> that has been taken back by nature. I learned how to ice skate in Harrer Park and attended Park View School grades K through 8, located since the 1950s where the Poehlman brothers once grew roses, carnations, mums, lilies, and other flowers and greenery for the wholesale florist market. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I passed by Mr. Moody's childhood home <a href="http://gradyent.blogspot.com/2013/11/50-years-ago-today_22.html">the day Kennedy was shot</a>.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My correspondent wrote back.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Great to hear from you, too. They still seem to be working on the ice each morning, but it does not appear to be open yet. It should be open any day now.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Please feel free to give me a call (or knock on the door) when you head to South Side Park – my house faces the north side of the Park.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Mr. Moody<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just how small of a world is it?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our daughter Blake skating at South Side Park in Bozeman, February 2014. Our correspondent's home -- quite literally -- is in the background. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With below normal temperatures through most of December, it most certainly has been cold enough, long enough to lay the ice at South Side. We suspect some sort of a labor issue is responsible for the delay. When we get around to lacing our skates up, we will be sure to knock at Mr. Moody's door and say "Hi."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Along the Gradyenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05425166035931796723noreply@blogger.com0