Word: schmeidler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winter of unease," says Brown. "The natural world is struggling against man's abuses. People are nervous." Rancher Gilbert Schmeidler, in Ellis County, Kans., is one of them. Day and night he looks for damp, heavy clouds. Mostly he sees bright moon and sun. "It is the dryest I can remember," he says. He has been there 58 years. Then there are the ominous, almost eerie, changes in the weather. One night three weeks ago, he was in shirt-sleeves, tending his Herefords. Within 60 hours the temperature fell from 86 degrees F to -13 degrees F, an unheard...
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