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2naSalit

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4. The locals definitely have their names for wind...
Tue Apr 5, 2022, 04:17 PM
Apr 2022

Ranging from the absurd to the comical including "Don't even say the word!". But they all generally end up just meaning "windy".

Indigenous folks had their terms but I'm not real familiar with them other than Chinook which may be one, but we have a fish named the same thing so


Thanks for the links, I was kind of still a little unnerved from the last one, this is the kind of wind that takes the shingles off the roof. Aren't you on that little continent with a lot of desert? I can see where you'd have some knowledge about wind.

I'll look at those links later when I need something to occupy my mind other than the news.

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