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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Tuesday April 11, 2006
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LEBANESE FOOD AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL
Saint Elias Maronite Catholic Church

April 21-22, 2006 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Located at 836 8th Street South
Near the corner of University Boulevard and 8th Street South

Get Homemade Lebanese Food Lunch and Dinner April 21-22 Easy Friday Lunch.
Fast Service in/out in minutes -- Take out or dine in. For really fast
service come early or late. We serve food the whole day. You can also have
food delivered to your place of business for Friday lunch. Click on our
website below for details.

Baked Kibbee, spinach pies, rolled grape leaves, fresh grilled lemon
chicken, loobia (spiced green beans), and sweets galore.
Have you ever tried Lebanese ice cream or the traditional baklawa?
It is worth the calories. All this and more will be available. Visit the
a-la-carte station - inside only - Meat Pies, Spinach Pies, Grape Leaves,
Tabouleh, and Homus. Stock up.

Take a tour of the church, visit our heritage room and learn more about the
language of Aramaic spoken at our liturgy. See scenes of Lebanon in our
main hall.
Silent Auction and Live Band from New York, back by popular demand each
evening.

All this and there is No Admission Charge. 25% of all proceeds go to
charities other than St. Elias Church.

FOR MORE INFO AND A COMPLETE MENU VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT:
http://www.stelias.org/festival_2006.html
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QUIET AND PEACEFUL: I believe you could see for a distance of 70 or
75 miles across Alabama today if it were not for the curvature of the earth.
It won't be long until mid summer when haze will be around almost every day
and on some days you won't even be able to see 7 miles.

I really enjoy the cool early mornings also. There is a place in NE
Etowah County that is up on top of Sand Mountain, but still in a slight
valley atop the mountain. ABC 33/40 weather watcher, Vic Bell, reported a
low of 38 this morning. It was 37 in DeSoto State Park, otherwise most
places had 40s.

Our extended period without storms is also very welcome. Clean-up
operations continue in numerous locations across the state. Sure would like
to know how many large trees were uprooted Friday night and early Saturday.
I bet the number would amaze you. So far the NWS has classified 16 of the
storms
as tornadoes. Fortunately, there were no major tornadoes as all 16 were
rated F0 or F1.

HOW LONG WILL IT LAST? The dry weather, that is. We believe we can
get by through the weekend with little or no rain. There is a slight hint of
a few showers by later Sunday. We did not include them in the forecast until
we get more evidence. It is going to get warmer in the afternoons and we
expect mid 80s by Friday and Saturday.

IN SEARCH OF BAD WEATHER: Very difficult to come by today anywhere
in the USA. Not a single severe thunderstorm or tornado warning has been
issued anywhere in the country in the last 24 hours. There could be a few
later today near places like Omaha. This does not count a serious flood
situation in Northern California. As much as 4 inches of additional rain may
fall there in the next 24 hours as a front moves inland from the Pacific
Ocean and stalls. There is even danger of some levee breaks. A state of
emergency has been declared in at least one California county...a few more
notes: 20 in Berlin, New Hampshire was the coldest in the lower 48 this
morning...10 below zero was the coldest in all of Alaska.

BIRTH OF A NATIONAL WEATHER WIRE: It happened on Palm Sunday in
1965 when 51 tornadoes hit six states with 256 fatalities. Culver, Indiana
was devastated. Another killer tornado stayed on the ground for 92 miles in
Michigan killing 44 people. This resulted in Congress making funds available
for statewide weather teletype circuits. Until that time, most weather
offices depended on the Associated Press or United Press International (UPI)
to distribute warnings and forecasts.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Little Miss Molly and I were happy to
see that the Old Crow Motel survived the weekend storms even though there
was quite a bit of wind damage in areas not too far away. One of these days
we are going to lose the old lady. All of her rooms (er, limbs) are on the
north side of the tree and most of them over halfway up the tree. Molly and
I named it the Old Crow Motel on Molly's very first walk with me three and a
half years ago. During that early morning walk around daybreak, two old
crows were perched high in the tree in what sounded like a vicious argument.
Don't know if they were having a family fight or deciding to divorce. I will
never forget my little pal, Molly, plopping down in the dew-covered grass
and looking up at those crows and slowly wagging her little tail like she
wanted to go for them. Tiny dog-big imagination. Life goes on even with
Daylight Saving Time.

J.B. Elliott
jbelliott@centurytel.net

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TONIGHT
Clear but some clouds before daybreak.
Morning Low 53
WIND: SE 4-8

WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 53 Afternoon High 77
WIND: S 7-14

THURSDAY
More sun than clouds.
Morning Low 56 Afternoon High 81
WIND: W 6-12

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny and warm.
Morning Low 59 Afternoon High 84
WIND: W 6-12

SATURDAY
Partly sunny and warm.
Morning Low 61 Afternoon High 84
WIND: W 7-14

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