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CALLING OUT THE NATIONAL GUARD IN WASHINGTON...TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - More than 6 feet of snow in the past three weeks has left Spokane residents frustrated. Tempers are so frayed that a man was arrested for shooting at a snow plow operator.

This unusually harsh winter has disrupted schools, traffic, garbage pickup and mail service in the city of 200,000.

Roofs are collapsing, streets are clogged with ice and slush and locals are starting to refer to this as Sno-maggedon.

Even visitors are impressed. "This is the most snow I've ever seen," Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt said when her team played at Gonzaga University on Dec. 30. "It's beautiful."

Spokane has received more than 78 inches of snow - about the height of Michael Jordan - since mid-December. That's far above its average of less than 50 inches for an entire winter. Normally about 16 inches would have fallen at this point.

The local record for an entire winter is 93.5 inches set in 1949-50. That is likely to be shattered soon.

As many as 200 members of the Washington National Guard were being dispatched to the Spokane area to help with snow removal Wednesday, particularly on school rooftops, Laura Lockard, a spokeswoman for Gov. Chris Gregoire, said Tuesday...

I really hate to say this, and I might be the first person to say this... but if this global warming weather keeps up all winter, which it looks like it's going to do, then there is a strong possibility that all of Canada will become one huge glacier by spring time! As well as the northern portions of Russia, China, Asia...in other word the official North Pole will have the entire northern fourth of our planet under a solid ice pack.

It is already under a solid snow pack.

Will the global warming alarmists just go away and leave us alone? What will it take to shut them up?

Until then...get out your skis and toboggans and enjoy the snow...for as the residents of Spokane are discovering...after a while it's not so much fun after all.