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“If Nino is the major problem, let’s banish him to Kingdom if he goes around bashing people.”
Come now!” he said.
The three sat looking at each other trying to figure a way
Clime jumped to his feet.
to stop Nino from bullying his sister and the other weather
divisions. They needed the twins to start working
“You can’t banish one of the most important weather
together. If not, Cyan would implement the new contracts
effects Earth has! Do you have any idea what would
and carry out his threat of Kingdom Come. It would be
happen without El Nino?”
hard to promote someone else into Nino’s position!
He was almost shouting.

“While we’re getting the twins to co-operate, I can work
on my own team,” thought Eus. “It amazes me that they
“With only Nina working, the oceans would be too hot or
too cold, depending on which sector she was working and can co-operate when they want to. I need to foster that in
where she isn‘t working. In the areas with no Atmospheric a constructive way.”
the ocean would remain at an ambient temperature.”
“I’ll let you go Eus and may be you can think about a
solution to our problems. I would like to see a report
Clime frowned, he wasn’t sure of his facts here; there
within the next week. I also need to talk to your division
was no history to refer to. It had never happened before
heads. We have a few other co-operation issues to fix.”
that there was only one Oceanic Atmospheric on duty.
Cyan dismissed Eus. “We’ll talk soon.”
He went on regardless.
Eus walked out of the office. She was worried. Cyan
“No evaporation, basically no weather variations, the
obviously understood more than she thought he did.
tides may even be affected. You start messing with the
tides and Loony Luna will be down here quicker that one
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Susan Johnston

All of Naturalis, elementals, heads and workers alike,
feared Luna, the Goddess of the Moon. Luna, Loony
Luna behind her back, was well known to be eccentric,
two faced and vindictive. No one wanted to upset her.
Only a few months ago, at some perceived slight from
Mother Nature, Luna had stopped the tides in the
southern hemisphere for three days. This caused havoc
with the entire ecosystem of the ocean. The lack of tidal
variation had the humans terrified of Tsunami.

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Continued next month

What did Santa Claus’s wife say during a
thunderstorm? Come and look at the rain, dear.

Once again Mother Nature was blamed.

How did you find the weather on your holiday?
It was easy. I just went outside – and there it was!

“The old dame has lost the plot,” they said.
Eus spoke up.

A man was driving a black truck. His lights were not
on. The moon was not out. A lady was crossing the
street. How did the man see her?
It was a bright, sunny day.

“Without evaporation there would be no clouds and
therefore no rain. In short no storms. My whole
department would be out of work, not to mention what
would happen on Earth.”

What is a tornado ? Mother nature doing the twist !

Clime chimed in.

A smart kangaroo

“El Nino and La Nina act as a natural circulation pump.
Earth would become a stagnant mess of hydrocarbons
without them. You‘ve seen the pollution down there.”

A kangaroo kept getting out of his enclosure at the
zoo.
Knowing that he could hop high, the zoo officials put
up a ten-foot fence.

“O.K.! Calm down. It was just a suggestion,” soothed
Cyan.

He was out the next morning, just roaming around the
zoo. A twenty-foot fence was put up.

Clime sat down. “We need to foster co-operation
between the twins, stop the rivalry.”

Again he got out. This continued for a few days, each
time the fence became taller and taller.
When the fence was forty feet high, a camel in the
next enclosure asked the kangaroo, "How high do
you think they'll go?"

Eus interjected. “We need to stop Nino’s bullying first!
There has to be a way to make him move when he is
supposed to.”
“He’s only a bully because he won’t move, Eus, it’s not as
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The kangaroo said, "As high as they can go, unless
somebody locks the gate at night!"