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Enough; Editorial; Beaver County Times; February 18, 2010.
What should have been a trivial editorial concludes with, “Hawaii was the only exception. And if it ever gets snow, the end really will be near.” Is it possible no one on the Times editorial board knows Hawaii regularly has snow at the upper elevations of three volcanoes (Haleakala, Mauna Kea, and Mauna Loa)? Heck, there’s occasionally enough snow that people ski and snowboard at least on Mauna Kea. Even if their grade school geography classes were not what they should have been, did none of them read National Geographic or occasionally drop in on the History Channel? Even ignorance isn’t an excuse. The AP story that likely served as the basis for this editorial even noted, “Hawaii’s 13,800-foot Mauna Kea volcano, which often gets snow much of the year at its higher elevations is the most likely place in the 50th state to have snow, but there ‘is nothing right now.’”
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