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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Friday October 15, 2004 ==================================================================
COLLECTIBLES --- HISTORY --- INFORMATION
ALABAMA GUN COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION FALL SHOW
In Our 50th Year
BJCC North Exhibition Hall
Oct. 23, 2004 from 9:00AM--6:00PM Oct. 24, 2004 from 9:00AM--4:00PM

Civil War, World War I, World War II, Spanish American War, Korean War, Viet Nam, War, High Grade Rifles & Shotguns, Hunting Guns & Ammo. Also expect to find target guns, accessories, edged weapons, cowboy items. ATF representatives are scheduled to be on hand to answer Federal Law questions.

THE FINEST SHOW IN THE SOUTHEAST!
Many Fine Displays For An Historical Venture Into The Past

Tickets are $5 at the door. Under 18 must have parent or guardian accompany For information: (205) 349-2407 or e-mail at HRBJLB@earthlink.net ==================================================================

GOOD AFTERNOON: Hello from the Big D, Dallas, Texas on this Friday afternoon. When I am on the road, I occasionally will order a nice room service breakfast. That seemed appropriate this morning as I leisurely perused all of the morning’s weather data. A little NPR, a nice ham and cheese omelet, some potatoes with red peppers, (it is Dallas after all) some OJ and a grapefruit half. It’s amazing what you can get for just $31. Oh, well. You only live once, right?

BRISK START THIS MORNING: Things got off to a chilly start this morning across Alabama. Readings in the mid/upper 40s were common, with a few low 40s mixed in for effect. It was 38F in Highland Home below Montgomery for the state’s cool spot this morning. Temperatures today are doing well to make it very far into the 60s. This fallish weather will still be with us tonight, as readings again fall into the forties across the area, perfect for those high school football games. Temperatures on Saturday will be near 70 and in the upper 70s on Sunday.

ON THE WEATHER MAPS: This current chill is the result of an upper air pattern that looks like the big hill on the Scream Machine. The next two weeks will feature a progressive upper air pattern over North America with a series of troughs and ridges marching across the northern part of the continent. There will be a persistent high pressure cell off the South Atlantic coast, though, that will help to shunt most of the really cool air and more active weather to our north. Next week does look to be rather unsettled, with a chance of showers starting Monday or Tuesday lasting through most of the week. A cold front will edge slowly into the South on Friday, probably grinding to a halt over the northern half of the state. A low will then form to our west, and could spell a wet weekend.

FOOTBALL WEATHER: Perfect weather for tonight’s high school games and the UAB game at Legion Field. Saturday’s games will also be nice. Expect partly cloudy skies in Tuscaloosa for Homecoming at the Capstone with a kick off temperature in the upper 60s. Lots of sunshine on the Plains as Auburn entertains Arkansas. Again, game time temps in the upper 60s.

HAZEL’S LEGACY: When the subject of hurricanes is raised in South Carolina and North Carolina, stories about Hurricane Hazel inevitably come to the forefront. On this date in 1954, the hurricane made landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina on the South Carolina/North Carolina border as a category four storm with top winds of 150 mph. A record storm surge caused extreme destruction along the North Carolina Coast with an eighteen foot tide at Calabash. The tide height was enhanced by highest lunar tide of the year. Three hundred homes vanished without a trace at Long Island NC. One of the worst tragedies of Hazel occurred at Ocean Isle, a resort west of Long Beach. The tiny island was cutoff from the mainland early in the storm when the ferry was destroyed. Eleven people stranded on the island sought shelter in a two story building, but quickly found it crumbling around them.

They made their way to a truck through the breaking waves, but it too was washed away. Only two of the eleven people survived.

Bill Murray
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TONIGHT
Partly cloudy, maybe a little cloudy toward morning.
Morning Low 47
WIND: W 3-6

SATURDAY
Some clouds early, then a mix of sun, some clouds.
Morning Low 47 Afternoon High 70
WIND: W 6-12

SUNDAY
A nice day. Sun, some clouds.
Morning Low 49 Afternoon High 77
WIND: SW 4-8

MONDAY
Partly cloudy with a small chance of showers.
Morning Low 61 Afternoon High 81
WIND: SW 6-12

TUESDAY
Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 77
WIND: S 6-12

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