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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Monday April 10, 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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SHIFTING OUR GEARS: Weather people have to be very adjustable. We
are at the mercy of Mother Nature and have to shift our pace and focus as
weather conditions change. What a difference today as compared to our big
weather threat just passed. And, what a relief that we had no fatalities in
Alabama. We certainly feel for the people in Tennessee. So far, 38 people
have been killed in the USA in the first nine days of April.

Our change in weather has to be most welcomed by almost everyone in
the state. We know everyone was sitting on needles, pins and thumbtacks
with anxiety Friday and Friday night. Now we can totally relax because it
appears we will not have another threat of severe weather all week. In fact,
the Storm Prediction Center does not mention any threat across the lower 48
all week.

Here in Alabama, lots of sunshine for the next several days. We
don't mention rain all the way through the weekend. Pleasantly cool nights
and mild to warm afternoons. Timely, also, because lots of folks are
involved in cleanup activities. I visited the South Roebuck area of NE
Birmingham where dozens of large trees were uprooted in the wee morning
hours Sunday. Unfortunately a number of those trees fell across homes. It
was a straight-line wind event.

INCOMPLETE SENTENCES: Less than 8% of the USA covered by snow today
(not counting Alaska)...compare that to 26% last month...241 inches on the
ground at Leavitt Lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains...lots of people visit
Crater Lake...168 inches on the ground at the National Park Headquarters
this morning...93 in Fort Lauderdale Sunday...19 in Saranac Lake, N.Y., this
morning...33 was one of the lowest temperatures in Alabama...8 below at
Barrow and Point Lay, Alaska...probably feels like spring to those folks.

GONE FOREVER: These tropical storm/hurricane names from the 2005
season are gone forever, never to be used again: Dennis, Katrina, Rita,
Stan, Wilma. Normally those names would have been used again in 2011.
Instead, we will see Don, Katia, Rina, Sean, and Whitney...the first five
names for this season: Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby, Ernesto.sure hope we
can avoid the Greek Alphabet!

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Never seen Little Miss Molly so scared.
I was doing radio broadcasts from the ABC 33/40 Weather Office when the
storms came through. My wife wrapped Molly in a blanket and sat in our small
"safe-room," but the loud pounding thunder and the hail blowing against the
house was too much. She was shaking from fear. She stayed under the bed much
of Saturday, still afraid. But when I came home from 33/40 early Saturday
morning, she was told "daddy's home"...she came roaring out from under the
bed like a rocket, forgetting about being scared, because she wanted to see
me so bad. Even though I had been working for 25 hours in a row, under
pressure, and was groggy, sleepy, exhausted, hungry, thirsty-it made me perk
up right away. That little girl can do magic with me. I love the little
nine-pound creature. She knows me like a book and I am afraid she can get
her way with me far too often. So what? She won't be here forever. Life goes
on.

J.B. Elliott
jbelliott@centurytel.net

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TONIGHT
Clear and cool.
Morning Low 47
WIND: SE 4-6

TUESDAY
Sunny.
Morning Low 47 Afternoon High 77
WIND: SE 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 54 Afternoon High 76
WIND: S 7-14

THURSDAY
Partly sunny and warm.
Morning Low 54 Afternoon High 80
WIND: S 6-12

FRIDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 58 Afternoon High 82
WIND: W 6-12

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