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truedelphi

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5. Good information to know about.

Reply to Odin2005 (Reply #4)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 10:27 PM

Jun 2012

I have read several journal accounts of how it affected people in the New England area - and also Upstate New York. They were able to survive only if they had the ability to hunt for wild game. And if they had stored enough things like potatoes from the previous year's harvest.

And of course, no radio, TV or much print media - so many people didn't even know why their growing season that year was so strange.

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The Mystery Clouds are back over both poles - awesome photo [View all] truedelphi Jun 2012 OP

Thank you for that truly awesome photo! CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2012 #1

See response number two: truedelphi Jun 2012 #3

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I've read they were first observed after the 1812 eruption of Tambora. Odin2005 Jun 2012 #4

Good information to know about. truedelphi Jun 2012 #5

Mystery Clouds?!? chervilant Jun 2012 #6

I'm sure most scientists would chalk these clouds up to some earth-based truedelphi Jun 2012 #7