A note to the Daily Mail

Posted on July 13, 2006 by Earl

The pictures accompanying this article are indeed beautiful (we had some wild storms yesterday), but Fort Smith is so far from “affluent” that the distance can be measured in light years.
Just sayin’.

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ubikuberalles on July 13, 2006 at 8:32 pm
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“The clash of weather was seen above the affluent city of Fort Smith, in the Southern state Arkansas.”
Heh. I’m sure it’s affluent in Fort Smith. Umm. Whatever that means.
Last week I saw some really cool lightning in Albuquerque. I didn’t have a camera handy but even if I did I wouldn’t have been able to take pictures nearly as cool as those. I’m jealous.
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Earl on July 14, 2006 at 10:55 pm
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Well, it’s because we’re so affluent here that we can, in fact, afford to have lightning and rainbows at the same time. 😛

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