On December 27, 1998, I returned home to Iowa to celebrate Christmas. One of the observers at the Norfolk, Nebraska, weather office called to tell me that a letter arrived announcing the closure of the weather station on January 31, 1999. Effectively, we were all losing our jobs.
The postmark on the letter was December 23.
When I finally read the letter myself I looked for any sign of recognition of the callousness of the timing. Nope. It was as cold and bureaucratic as everything else from the government.
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